Kudos: Choose Folder dialog on export improved (Windows)

Simple improvement, but this bugged me majorly as I used it often -- thanks for the more advanced Choose Folder dialog in Export. I can now hit "Recent Places" and more easily navigate my file system. Cool!

Solution is, explain to them that what you can do in Access is NOT always what you can do in other products. Ask them to show you how when they visit Amazon.com, if they can click on an item and it is "magically" saved to a folder on their local workstation without an intervention..
Sorry, just sometimes we let the business users decide what is best, even though 1/2 the time it will end up biting them in the a$$..
Thank you,
Tony Miller
Webster, TX

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I've been trying to figure out how to get the same functionality as the Windows version of Outlook has so that the open message gets closed when it's moved to another folder.
It seems pretty simple to move a message to a pre-defined folder, but I can't find a way to open the Choose Folder dialog so I could choose the destination folder. I've looked through the dictionary, but couldn't find any direct way to activate the Choose Folder dialog. So I decided to use keystrokes for the job. Here's what I came up with:
on run {}
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        try
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            set folderID to the folder of theMessage
        on error errMsg number errNum
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            return
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        repeat
            delay 2
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            if currentID is not folderID then exit repeat
        end repeat
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        tell application "System Events" to keystroke "w" using command down
    end tell
end run
This is my first attempt to do anything with AppleScript..
Now in addition to using keystrokes instead of Outlook built-in commands to open the Choose Folder dialog and to close the message, I also have another problem. Everytime I run the script from AppleScript Editor, everything runs fine, the message gets moved to the folder I choose and the message also gets closed. When I move the script to "~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Outlook Script Menu Items" and start it from inside Outlook, Outlook gets stuck after opening the Choose Folder dialog and I have to force quit Outlook. I added some debuggin to the script and found out that the script keeps running, but I'm unable to select the folder from Outlook and cannot continue.
Anybody have an idea why this is happening?
Regard,
Kris

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I'm pretty new to scripting in illustrator and am having immense difficulties trying to disable the "Choose Folder" dialog. The script cycles through saving the image, then its layers out in different formats. To set the image up properly, I have to run sections of the script through an action set. Even though I've specified a path for each "save" and "export," Illustrator will prompt the "Choose Folder" dialog each time it comes to a script. Can I specify the directory in such a way to remove user interaction (files will always export to fixed folder)?

Mark said AppleScript Studio, but I suspect he means AppleScriptObjC -- Studio was deprecated in OS X 10.6. What you're after is known as a save panel with an accessory view.
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thePanel's setAccessoryView_(theView)
-- show and return results
          tell thePanel to set theResult to showModal()
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          set {thePath, checkBoxState} to run the script {openPlus} with response
end tell
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-- do your stuff
end if
Message was edited by: Shane Stanley (added solution)

Applescript create choose folder dialog with checkbox

Hi,
can anybody tell me if it's possible to create an applescript choose folder dialog with a checkbox similar to the dialog window you get when you Place? I know how to choose a folder using:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
          set myFolder to choose folder
end tell
and I know I can use a checkbox like this:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
          set myDialog to make dialog with properties {name:"Folder to process"}
          tell myDialog
                    tell (make dialog column)
                              set myRectanglesCheckbox to make checkbox control with properties {static label:"Include Sub folders", checked state:true}
                    end tell
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end tell
But is it possible to both of theses options together in one dialog window.
Any help would be greatfully appreciated.
Thanks,
Nik

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Actually, as long as you don't expect the checkbox to change anything while the dialog is showing you can get what you want without too much pain using ASObjC Runner:
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          set theView to current application's NSView's alloc()'s initWithFrame_({{0, 0}, {200, 32}})
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-- do your stuff
end if
Message was edited by: Shane Stanley (added solution)

How to show folders in Choose Folder dialog windows

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Is there a way to show folders in Choose Folder - Webpage Dialog window and have the NEW folder option disabled ?
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Hi,
Do you have any folders in that document library? When you click choose folder, it will only show you the folders in current library.
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Document Library Upload 'Choose Folder' programming Issues

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I have a document library with folders and subfolders and all folders have unique security inheritance applied. Administrator is able to upload to any folder using below dialog. I want everyone who does not have permission to the folders and subfolders to
upload file. So I decided to programmatically incorporate the ‘Choose Folder’ functionalities via SPSecurity.RunwithElivatedPrivillages(Delegate(){ “…” });
I incorporated fetching document library and populate hierarchies inside the security code so code run as system account. However when I call
LaunchPickerTreeDialog
it populates based on user permission and hence if user does not have permission to folder, it does not populate at
all.
How can I make sure to give this Upload file functionality to all users via dialog box with full permission so it generates all folders and subfolder of the document library when user select ‘Choose Folder’ option?
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Size of choose folder/file opendialog window

I find that the size of the opendialog for choose folder in AppleScript is rather small, even cramped.
Especially compared to the size of the window you get in Automator in an Ask for Finder Items action.
How can the size be changed, if at all possible?
Thanks
Berend

I think there's some other subtle element at work here.
The OS appears to recall how you set the open and save dialogs in each application - that is, if you choose File -> Open File... in Safari and expand the dialog to be very wide but short, it will reopen that way next time you Open File... in Safari.
You can choose the corresponding menu option in another application and the OS will remember that application's setting, which may be different from Safari's.
However, when you use AppleScript to invoke the dialog it always seems to open at the default, regardless of individual application settings, and it does not seem to record any changes you make. This is true even if the AppleScript is saved as a standalone application (I tried this just in case it's something saved back in the application settings)
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Export presets now direct me to the "Browse For Folder" dialog box

Suddenly Lightroom will not remember the name of the "export to" folder when I use my export presets in certain ways, even though the name of the "export to" folder appears in the "Export" dialog box. The prolem exists in Library and Develop modules. This is what's happening…
IF I CLICK ON "FILE":
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Problem with Office document structure when exporting in Windows vs full-text indexing in SQL Server

Post Author: Atarel
CA Forum: Exporting
Product: Crystal Report for .Net 2005Version: distributed with VS 2005Patches Applied: hot fix crnet20win32x86_en_chf.zipOperating System(s): Win2000 Pro SP4, WinXP SP2, Win 2003 Server SP1, Win 2003 Server SP2Database(s): SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005Error Messages: None
We are creating reports with Crystal Report for .Net. We both have a Windows and a Web application connecting to our database. The problem occurs only with the Windows application. We create a report and in the dialog that appears, we choose to export the report in MS Word format. Everythinglooks fine because after we save the document, MS Word is able to open and display the document. However, when we decide to add this Word document in the database in a table that has a image column bound to a full-text indexing schema, that document is never indexed. After fiddling around for a few hours, we realized that the Word document produced during the export is not a true Word document but rather a RTF document that was given a ".doc" extension. Is there a way to have a real Word document when exporting in Windows. The problem does not arise in Web because when we export, the report is displayed in Internet Explorer through the Office plugin. The Office plugin knows how to same a real Word document.
There is also a problem when exporting to Excel in Windows. It does not yield the same structure as in Web. The format of the export in Windows is not compatible with the Office IFilter of SQL Server 2000/2005, therefore the content is not available for search queries.
Any patches to fix this problem?
Regards,
Ian Perreault

Post Author: Atarel
CA Forum: Exporting
Product: Crystal Report for .Net 2005Version: distributed with VS 2005Patches Applied: hot fix crnet20win32x86_en_chf.zipOperating System(s): Win2000 Pro SP4, WinXP SP2, Win 2003 Server SP1, Win 2003 Server SP2Database(s): SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005Error Messages: None
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There is also a problem when exporting to Excel in Windows. It does not yield the same structure as in Web. The format of the export in Windows is not compatible with the Office IFilter of SQL Server 2000/2005, therefore the content is not available for search queries.
Any patches to fix this problem?
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Hi Forum,
I started to write an AppleScript for Aperture to perform a backup. The standard backup procedures of Aperture are not quite right for me so I decided to write my own using AppleScript.
One question which arised was how I can supppress the dialog box which Aperture opens when an export could not be done because of a missing master. I want to suppress the dialog box and instead get an error returned from Aperture into AppleScript. is that possible?
Koen van Dijken

Hello Koen,
have you solved your problem by now? For me the following does work:
I does not seem to be possible to set Aperture to suppress the warning, so catching the error in a "try" clause will not help. The best option is to check, if the master image is online, before trying to export and skipping the offline images, like in this example, see: http:/dreschler-fischer.de/scripts/ExportMastersWithoutWarning.scpt.zip
on run {}
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-- skip if not online
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                                                  set onlne to get online of (item i of imageSel)
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                                                            "Project Name" to exportFolder
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                              end repeat
                              return imageSel
                    end if
          end tell
end run
Regards
Léonie

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I want to know how can we open the "choose application" dialog from InDesign. I want to give this functionality through right click context menu.
At present CS4 has this feature - steps are as follows:
1.Create a document.
2.Place an item on the document.
3.Now select the placed item and right click on it.
4.Go to "Edit With->Other..." option.
5.Choose application dialog opens up and user can select the application in which he/she wants to open the selected item.
I want the same behavior but not able to understand how to open the choose application dialog on Mac. I have already achieved this on windows.
I think that there might be some system API's for Mac to get this working.
Please let me know about this, any help will be appreciable.

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Browse For Folder Dialog

I am trying to display a "Browse For Folder" dialog
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http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/Bb964683.ed6b0efa-d190-4995-861d-abc3571b06ac(en-us,office.12).gif
There have been several posts over the years on these forums asking similar questions without answers.
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JDirectoryChooser
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Set Choose to choose folder or file as is perm. in App. Script Studio Panel

Surely this has to be a basic question. At some point within an Applescript Studio application the user needs to enter a desired output filename, the path for this output filename, or both. A one button interface is the intent of course. The Applescript Studio choose panel works fine for this task except that the choose panel seems to lack the ability to also create a folder.
Creating a new folder is a likely task at this point in the application. One can create a folder with the standard Applescript choose function, but how does one setup the Applescript choose to allow picking a folder or a file? Furthermore, how does one preset the folder in which the choose opens?
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As for selecting either a file or a folder dialog, you can use some kind of switch to use seperate 'choose file' or 'choose folder' statements, or change the text of a script to run:
<pre title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor" style="font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10px; padding: 5px; width: 720px; color: #000000; background-color: #E0E0E0; overflow: auto">property SingleFile : false -- false for folder, true for file
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set TheType to "folder"
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