[JS] real fils txt via sharepoint.com

[Liphou]

Hello everyone,

Is it possible to read a .txt file through a sharepoint.com address?

Same for an .indt file?

Bonjour à tous,

Est-il possible le lire un fichier . txt via une adresse sharepoint.com?

Idem pour un fichier .indt?

function openURL(url, useHttps) {

    // by Trevor http://creative-scripts.com
    if (!/^http/.test('' + url)) {

        url = (useHttps ? 'https://' : 'http://') + url;

    }

    if ($.os[0] === 'M') { // Mac

        app.doScript('open location "URL"'.replace(/URL/, url), ScriptLanguage.APPLESCRIPT_LANGUAGE);

    } else { // Windows

        app.doScript('CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run("URL")'.replace(/URL/, url), ScriptLanguage.VISUAL_BASIC);

    }

}

//openURL('creative-scripts.com');
openURL('https://XXXXX.sharepoint.com/XXXXXXX'); // exemple

[Abambo]

If the OS is presenting the sharepoint address like a disk file, yes. 

Indesign opens a file from the disk and reads and writes to the disk. Indesign has no idea about sharepoint and any other fancy document management system.

[rob day]

Hi @Liphou I don’t think that’s going to work with ExtendScript. You could have the collaborators sync to a folder in the Sharepoint root and open the sync’d local .indt or text file.

CC subscriptions offer the same sync’ing feature, so this would get a text file named hello.text syncing to the root of my Creative Files Folder:

var path = File(Folder.userData.parent.parent + "/Creative Cloud Files/hello.txt");
var myText = readFile(path)
$.writeln(myText);
//returns "Hello There"  

function readFile(p) {
	var f = new File(p);
	f.open("r");  
	var x = f.read();  
	f.close();
	return x;
}