How to show the file’s parent

[Johnwhite]

Hi experts,

How to show the file’s parent as below:

Assume I double click the target file, and the file is open as active Document, how can I make a code to show the file parent. I mean the folder which contain the target file.

Thanks
Regard
John

[tpk1982]

alert(decodeURI(app.activeDocument.filePath))//shows path  
alert(decodeURI(app.activeDocument.fullName))//shows path and file name  

[Laubender]

Hi John,

in case you double-click the InDesign document, the document will open.

And from the open document you can get the parent folder opened in your file system:

File(app.documents[0].fullName).parent.execute();

Tested on Mac OSX 10.6.8. Should also work on Windows.

Regards,
Uwe

[natrev · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

Try this...

var myFolder=Folder(app.activeDocument.fullName);
alert(decodeURI(myFolder.parent.name));
alert(myFolder.parent.fsName);

[Johnwhite]

Thank you all guys,

but how can just the file's parent not whole path?

regard

John

[natrev]

Hi,

This code shows only the parent folder name

var myFolder=Folder(app.activeDocument.fullName);  
alert(decodeURI(myFolder.parent.name));

This code shows full path

alert(myFolder.fsName);