Name of linked File in a Frame

[Innotex Nico Tanne]

Hello,
Maybe you can help me?
I am trying to read the linked document from a frame and put the name in a text layer.
Somehow I only get the layer name and not the name of the image that is in the frame.
Maybe it would also be great if someone knows how to delete the ending (.jpg) directly at the end.

many thanks in advance.

[Manan Joshi]

Try the following code, it will alert the file name of the linked image present on the currently active layer.

function getDescriptor(className)
{
	var r = new ActionReference ()
	r.putEnumerated (stringIDToTypeID (className), stringIDToTypeID ("ordinal"), stringIDToTypeID ("targetEnum"));
	var d = executeActionGet(r)
	return d
}
var currLayer = app.documents[0].activeLayer
if(currLayer.kind == LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT)
{
	var d = getDescriptor("layer")
	var so = d.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("smartObject"))
	if(so.getBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("linked")))
	{
		var f = so.getPath(stringIDToTypeID("link"))
		var a = f.name.match(/(.*)\./)
		alert(a[1])
	}
}

Edit:- Removed unused code

-Manan

[Innotex Nico Tanne]

Hi Manan,

Thank you for your fast answer, but i try´d it but it wont work.

No alert is shown.?

[Manan Joshi]

Can you send me a sample file for which it does not work, so that I can debug it?

-Manan

[Innotex Nico Tanne]

here ist the file:

https://we.tl/t-YVY1VjDuo5

but you must link the image into the frame.

my goal is to create captions for the frames with the name of the image in a text layer.

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Try the following code

function getDescriptor(className)
{
	var r = new ActionReference ()
	r.putEnumerated (stringIDToTypeID (className), stringIDToTypeID ("ordinal"), stringIDToTypeID ("targetEnum"));
	var d = executeActionGet(r)
	return d
}

var currLayer = app.documents[0].activeLayer
if(currLayer.kind == LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT)
{
	var d = getDescriptor("layer")
	var so = d.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("smartObject"))
	var a
	if(so.hasKey(stringIDToTypeID("fileReference")))
	{
		a = so.getString(stringIDToTypeID("fileReference"))
	}
	if(a)
		alert(a.match(/(.*)\./)[1])
}

-Manan

[Innotex Nico Tanne]

Hi Manan,

I Tryed again and without the layerkind line it works 🙂 

Thank you! 

[Manan Joshi]

Interesting I did test the code on your document and it works for me just fine

-Manan