Placed item Wild Card

[Babymac08]

I have been trying unsuccessfully to change this command to a wild card statement for files in this folder... I may be mixing two different scripting styles together but not sure...  Creating a Hot folder that will grab files as they are placed in folder... Have it working successfully when I use a generic file.opendialog option but want it to grab the file from the folder...

Help Please...

//This is just the place portion of my entire script...

//Place New Image

var image = File('~/Desktop/Files/*.*');

var newimage = docRef.placedItems.add(); 

newimage.file = image; 

newimage.position = [200,-300];

[Loic.Aigon · Accepted solution]

Declaring a File instance imply to specifically path an url to a File whatever it exists or not at the time.

You can't use such a shortcut for getting any files of the folder. Instead you may want to use Folder.getFiles()

//Place New Image
var fo = Folder ( '~/Desktop/Files' );
var files = fo.getFiles ( /* you may want to use a filter function here. See doc */ );
var file, newimage;
while ( file = files.pop() ) {
  newimage = docRef.placedItems.add(); 
  newimage.file = file; 
  newimage.position = [200,-300];
}

HTH

Loic

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