Select a folder Preference | Getting the Contents

[sclough]

I've been having a look at the shared folder preference. I was just wondering if there was an API available to get the contents of the folder that's been selected? I can output the UUID, but that's about it.

Ideally so I could get something like an array of all the image contained within a chosen folder.

Thanks,

Simon

 

[Chris.Smith]

Hi @sclough,

@Graham Quince has a tutorial on just this that you can use as a reference. You need the page entitled 'Calling an API' on this tutorial - https://www.frogcommunity.com/understanding-api

In this he discusses how to get the contents of a folder from a uuid.

Hope that helps

[sclough]

Thanks Chris.

I've just had a look at that and got it partially working. I can find the UUID of the parent folder, and the selected folder. I can also get a list of files contained within.

When I use this:

"selectFolder": {
  "type": "sharedfolder",
  "defaultValue": "|"
}

I'm only able to get the UUID of the selected folder and not the parent. Is there anyway of finding the UUID of the parent folder for the selected folder? That way the user can select a folder and the files contained within can be listed.

Thanks,

Simon

[Graham Quince]

I discovered the parent folder is a hard coded uuid.   It's always EDAAA0E92002F81B92C2DFCD917CAC05E532634CEE5FEBD9

No idea why, but if you use that, it should work for you.

 

[sclough]

Thanks @Graham Quince

That seems a little odd, I'll give that a try now.

[Chris.Smith]

On 17/03/2017 at 16:59, Graham Quince said:

I discovered the parent folder is a hard coded uuid.   It's always EDAAA0E92002F81B92C2DFCD917CAC05E532634CEE5FEBD9

No idea why, but if you use that, it should work for you.

 

@Graham Quince The reason will blow your mind...