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Using OpenURI to Open a Job Folder Created by the Folder Helper Solution

2009-06-04

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This article provides an example for automatically opening a folder that has just been created using the Folder Helper solution.

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The MetaCommunications Folder Helper solution provides users with the ability to automatically create Job Folders on the production file server via MetaScript. The enhancement to the solution MetaScript below adds the OpenURI functionality that will open the resulting folder

function CreateJobFolder() 
{ 
var result = fh_form.create_folder("\\\\servername\\ShareName", 
"username", 
"password", 
"2007 Jobs\\" + Field( 'Job Number' ) + " " + Field( 'Job Name' ), ["Folder1", "Folder2", "Folder3"]); 
if (result) 
{ 
alert( "Job folder has been created." ); 
} 
else 
{ 
alert(result); 
} 
OpenURI("\\\\servername\\sharename\\2007 Jobs\\"+ Field( 'Job Number' ) + " " + Field( 'Job Name' ) ); 
}  


Tags:

Folder Helper, How To, MetaScript, OpenURI, Virtual Ticket