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meett9325076
Inspiring
May 23, 2017
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How can I open a local folder view by clicking on a link

  • May 23, 2017
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Hello All,

Is there any way to open a local folder (file explorer not a file chooser) from a link in a premiere pro panel? Is this possible using cep API?

Premiere Pro version: 11.1.0

Extension Type: Panel


Thanks & Regards,
Meet Tank

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Correct answer e_d_

Yes. (If I was trying to be cheeky I'd stop right here.)

I do it like so:

Win:

window.cep.process.createProcess('C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe','yourAbsoluteFolderPathAsString')

Mac:

window.cep.process.createProcess('/usr/bin/open','yourAbsoluteFolderPathAsString')

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edit2j47225339
Known Participant
January 15, 2020

Hi, should this method still work? I'm trying this on a mac with this line:

 

window.cep.process.createProcess('/usr/bin/open','Volumes/.../90834_Render_Log.txt');

 

I took away part of the path for securty reasons. When I try to run this within my CEP panel it gives me the error 'window is not defined'. Do I need to do something to define 'window'?

 

EDIT: I figured it out. I had put the code in the premiere.jsx but it needs to be in the index.html. It works now.

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e_d_Correct answer
Inspiring
May 23, 2017

Yes. (If I was trying to be cheeky I'd stop right here.)

I do it like so:

Win:

window.cep.process.createProcess('C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe','yourAbsoluteFolderPathAsString')

Mac:

window.cep.process.createProcess('/usr/bin/open','yourAbsoluteFolderPathAsString')
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meett9325076Author
Inspiring
May 25, 2017

Thanks e.d.​ I am trying to replace the windows folder path by the environment variable as below:

window.cep.process.createProcess('%WINDIR%\\explorer.exe','yourAbsoluteFolderPathAsString')

But that didn't work. Could you please help me to achieve this?

Thanks,
Meet

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e_d_
Inspiring
May 25, 2017

Hey Meet,

for some reason unknown to me (and so far not explained by the CEF/CEP guys), you have to provide absolute paths. System environment variables will not work direclty AFAIK, they do not seem to get expanded.

In ExtendScript you would use $.getenv("WINDIR") , but how that would be solved in JS+CEP, I don't know (yet).

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