CS3:How to link a file to a InDesign document?

Question

Hello all,<br /><br />I looked at in the LinkWatcher sample code to get an idea how to link a file to a document, I came up with the code below, the last line of code needs pageitemUID instead of pageUID which I  used it here:<br /><br />IDFile outFile = Utils<ImyUtils>()->getMyFile(); // it reads the file <br />InterfacePtr<IDataLinkHelper> dataLinkHelper(::CreateObject2<IDataLinkHelper>(kDataLinkHelperBoss)); <br />InterfacePtr<IDataLink>      dataLinkNew(dataLinkHelper->CreateDataLink(outFile)); <br /><br />IDocument* theFrontDoc = Utils<ILayoutUIUtils>()->GetFrontDocument();<br />IDataBase* database = ::GetDataBase(theFrontDoc); <br /><br />InterfacePtr<IDocument> piDoc(theFrontDoc, UseDefaultIID()); <br /><br />InterfacePtr<IPageList> pageList(piDoc, UseDefaultIID()); <br />     <br />UID pageUID(kInvalidUID);<br /><br />if (pageList->GetPageCount() >  0)<br /> {<br />     pageUID = pageList->GetNthPageUID(0);<br />}<br />// I try to link the file to the front document, although it say pageitemUID, as a second //parameter, but I don't want to link the file to a particular page item. is this a right thing to do?<br /><br />int32 result = dataLinkHelper->AddDataLink(database,pageUID, dataLinkNew); <br /><br />as I execute the code it doesn't add the file in  Link palette in CS3, but when I pass a UID of one page item such as text frame, it will add the name of file to link palette with a "1" comes to  end of row that shows how many times this file was included in the frame. but in case I have not a page item can I use the pageUID instead ?<br /><br />Thanks In Advance,<br />Mor

Answer 1

Lee,
Sorry I think I didn't use the right terminology, somehow I want to include/link the file (not with menu item 'place') programmatically in my current open Indesign document, then I expect to see the filename in Link palette. I can do this with linking to a page item in doc but I don't want to assign it to a particular page item, rather I want to assign it to doc. Is any approach to do it?
Thanks again,
Mor