I would like some help checking how many files are inside a Google Drive folder before allowing a form submission.
I have this form here:
I would like that when the Submit button is clicked, a function checks how many files exist in a child folder of the folder where this GAS file is.
The HTML form GAS is linked to this worksheet here:
After checking how many files there are in the _ folder I would like to apply the following if/else statements:
If the _ folder has more than 3 files, display a confirmation pop-up, if the answer is Yes, create any file in the _ folder, if the answer is No, just don't allow the form submission.
If the _ folder contains 4 or more files, display an error message and disallow form submission.
The code of this HTML form can be seen here, accessing the spreadsheet's GAS:
HTML Form - Demonstration
Partial Solution:
I made some changes on the getLimitFolder() function to return the count of the files inside the _ folder.
function getLimitFolder(){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var pastapai = DriveApp.getFileById(ss.getId()).getParents();
var files = [];
Logger.log(pastapai);
//var limitfolder = pastapai.next().getFoldersByName("_").next().getId();
var limitfolder = pastapai.next().getFoldersByName("_").next().getFiles();
while(limitfolder.hasNext()){
var file = limitfolder.next();
files.push([file.getId()]);
}
console.log(files.length);
return files.length;
}
Inside the folder _:
From here, since the function can now return the count of files within the _ folder, you may need to create a new modal window on your HTML file to display the message first and create a separate function to determine the conditions for your if else statement.
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I am writing an automator workflow to work with files and folders. I’m writing it in JavaScript as I’m more familiar with it.
I would like to receive a folder, and get the folder’s name as well as the files inside.
Here is roughly what I have tried:
Window receives current folders in Finder (I’m only interested in the first and only folder)
Get Folder Contents
JavaScript:
function run(input,parameters) {
var files = [];
for(let file of input) files.push(file.toString().replace(/.*\//,''));
// etc
}
This works, but I don’t have the folder name. Using this, I get the full path name of each file, which is why I run it through the replace() method.
If I omit step 2 above, I get the folder, but I don’t know how to access the contents of the folder.
I can fake the folder by getting the first file and stripping off the file name, but I wonder whether there is a more direct approach to getting both the folder and its contents.
I’ve got it working. In case anybody has a similar question:
// Window receives current folders in Finder
var app = Application.currentApplication()
app.includeStandardAdditions = true
function run(input, parameters) {
let directory = input.toString();
var directoryItems = app.listFolder(directory, { invisibles: false })
var files = [];
for(let file of directoryItems) files.push(file.toString().replace(/.*\//,'')) ;
// etc
}
I don’t include the Get Folder Contents step, but iterate through the folder using app.listFolder() instead. The replace() method is to trim off everything up to the last slash, giving the file’s base name.
I am working on a project which sends PDFs from a Wordpress website to a Google Drive. The files are PDFs of people who registered for certain events, which are held in certain cities. These PDFs are all sent to a parent folder "registrations". What I need to achieve is to automatically send these PDFs to subfolders like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Woerden, Westland etc.
The PDFs are all sent to a parent folder "registrations". What I need to achieve is to automatically send these PDFs to subfolders like Amsterdam, Rotterdam. The names of the PDFs are the city names (e.g. Amsterdam).
In conclusion, the question basically is: how could I achieve to send a file with the name Amsterdam to a subfolder with the name Amsterdam, and a file with the name Rotterdam to a folder with the name Rotterdam?
EDIT: I am working on the script, but it is not complete yet. The script below searches for files in a parent folder that contains "woerden" in its name. Next, it moves these files to a folder called "woerden". This works, but the problem is that I will have to create about 300 different scripts to be able to automate the entire process. I am therefore wondering if it is possible to make this script more dynamic. For example, if a file with a name that contains -woerden- it is sent to a folder with the name woerden, and if a file with a name that contains -westland- it will be sent to a folder with the name westland.
function SearchFiles() {
// Parent folder
var parentFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById('15azR1-Fic_F_wPZHzXWKblIyxBB_GVsW'); //parent folder which will be scanned for duplicates
// Log the name of every file in the user's Drive whose name contains "westland".
var files = DriveApp.searchFiles(
'title contains "westland"');
while (files.hasNext()) {
var file = files.next();
// Remove the file from all parent folders
var parents = file.getParents();
while (parents.hasNext()) {
var parent = parents.next();
parent.removeFile(file);
}
DriveApp.getFolderById('1mSW3-uqv_F1m-TfLa_JyGRVK9-sGJYTj').addFile(file);
}
}
I hope that I asked my question clearly. Please let me know if you need some more information.
Cheers,
I have a standalone script that I need to run on Multiple Google Spreadsheets. I am able to assign a script to 1 spreadsheet using the following code:
function filter() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById('ID');
How to assign this to multiple spreadsheets?
There are more than a single way to do it.
1) You can manually get the id's of the various spreadsheets and hard code the id's as an array in the stand alone script.
2) You can move all the spreadsheets required to a single folder and automate opening the folder and opening the files in the particular folder. For this, say, the folder containing the required spreadsheets is "All spreadsheets", then try out the following code.
function myfunction()
{
var root = DriveApp.getFoldersByName("All spreadsheets");
while (root.hasNext())
{
var folder = root.next(); //If the folder is available, get files in the folder
var files = folder.getFiles();
while(files.hasNext()) //For each file,
{
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.open(files.next());
required_function(spreadsheet); //Call the required function
}
}
}
Hope it helps :)
I have a Google Sheets file with an attached Script. The script does a number of things, one is it makes a clone of it self using makeCopy. This portion works. Now I want to be able to keep the same cloned Google file name and same Google file ID and just update the content which includes a Spreadsheet and the associated Google script.
if (!fileFound){
var file = masterSSFile.makeCopy(reportFileName, RepFolder);
} else {
oldFile.setContent(masterSSFile.getBlob());
}
When I use makeCopy with the same file name it creates a second file with the same name but with a different file ID.
The else portion fails because .setContent argument seems to just accept text. The result is the word "Blob" in the oldFile, everything else is gone.
I have other scripts that update the contents of a existing spreadsheet by overriding the contents of the various sheets, but I also want the associated script to also be included in the updated file keeping the same file ID.
I found this....
Overwrite an Image File with Google Apps Script
and tried using
var masterSpreadsheetID = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getId();
var masterSpreadsheetFile = DriveApp.getFileById(masterSpreadsheetID);
var oldFileID = oldFile.getId();
var oldFileName = oldFile.getName();
var newBlob = masterSpreadsheetFile.getBlob();
var file = {
title: oldFileName,
mimeType: 'application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet'
};
var f = Drive.Files.update(file, oldFileID, newBlob);
I get error: "We're sorry, a server error occurred. Please wait a bit and try again. " on this line: "Drive.Files.update(file, oldFileID, newBlob);"
After reading this:
https://github.com/google/google-api-nodejs-client/issues/495
it looks like Drive.Files.update(), does not support bound scripts.
In my script I am trying to create a folder, create a date-stamped-document in said folder, create a sub folder, and copy some documents into that sub folder.
All of this works great. When I try to zip the parent folder via either of the methods found here: Creating a zip file inside google drive with apps script - it creates a zip file with a sole PDF file that has the same name as the date-stamped-document. The zipped PDF is blank, and the subfolder isn't there.
Any insight about why this is happening would be great.
var folder = DocsList.createFolder(folderTitle);
var subFolder = folder.createFolder('Attachments');
subfolder.createFile(attachments[]); //In a loop that creates a file from every
//attachment from messages in thread
var doc = DocumentApp.create(docTitle); //Google Doc
var docLocation = DocsList.getFileById(doc.getId());
docLocation.addToFolder(folder);
docLocation.removeFromFolder(DocsList.getRootFolder());
//Everything works fine, I can view file and subfolder, and subfolder's documents
//This is where the problem is:
var zippedFolder = DocsList.getFolder(folder.getName());
zippedFolder.createFile(Utilities.zip(zippedFolder.getFiles(), 'newFiles.zip'));
//this results in a zipped folder containing one blank pdf that has the same title as doc
The DocsList service has been deprecated so Phil Bozak's previous solution no longer works. However, refer to another SO question for solution that works with DriveApp class.
This is a great question. It does not seem that the zip function has the ability to zip sub folders. The reason that your script doesn't work is because you only select the files from the folder.
A solution would be to zip each of the subfolders and store that in the one zipped file. You can use the function that I wrote for this.
function zipFolder(folder) {
var zipped_folders = [];
var folders = folder.getFolders();
for(var i in folders)
zipped_folders.push(zipFolder(folders[i]));
return Utilities.zip(folder.getFiles().concat(zipped_folders),folder.getName()+".zip");
}
This recursively zips all subfolders. Then you need to create the file with something like
DocsList.getFolder("path/to/folder/to/store/zip/file").createFile(zipFolder(folderToZip));
I will put in a feature request to allow subfolders to be zipped.