"browse For File" In Prompt

Legacy Poster

• November 02, 2011 13:32

Is there any way to allow the user to browse for a file path in the prompt design? For example, to go find a image. If I manually type or copy the path and file name, the format works, but users would love to be able to also browse for it. Thanks

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  Shotaro Ito

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • November 04, 2011 05:32
  Hi nRyder,
  User prompt doesn't have a command button like Access form - you can only run script Before (OnPrePrompt) or After(OnPostPrompt / OnProcessData) event.
  keep that in mind, you can try like..
  
  Show file dialog before open prompt
  [Code]
  'Run in OnPreprompt
  Set objDialog = CreateObject("UserAccounts.CommonDialog")
  objDialog.Filter = "All Files|*.*"
  objDialog.InitialDir = "C:\"
  objDialog.ShowOpen
  Value = objDialog.FileName
  [/Code]
  
  Or get list of image files in specific folder in dropdown box's VBScript.
  [code]
  'get list of PNG files in C:\images
  Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  Set src = fso.GetFolder("C:\images\")
  For Each file In src.Files
  if Ucase(fso.GetExtensionName(file))="PNG" Then
  options = options & fso.GetFileName(file) & vbTab & file & vbcrlf
  End if
  Next
  Value=options
  [/code]
  
  Reference:
  blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2005/01/28/how-can-i-show-users-a-dialog-box-for-selecting-files.aspx
  
  Hope that helps!

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  Legacy Poster

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • December 07, 2011 17:06
  I've been working on this, and got the drop-down option to work, sorta.
  
  I wanted to let the user type or paste a folder path, and then allow the prompt dropdown script to use that entered path as it's path to pull file names from, but it always gives me a script error in the dropdown. If I set the field to "Screen Data", and enter the text before print-time, it works. But an InputBox put into the PrePrompt script doesn't seem to work.
  
  Does that make sense?

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  Legacy Poster

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • December 11, 2011 04:50
  You can customize the script by changing the INPUT type=text to INPUT type=file so user can browse file, then write an onchange event to copy the value filename an hidden INPUT type=hidden element. Since the enctype of the form is not changed to "multipart/form-data" required for INPUT type=file, the file will not be uploaded.

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  Shotaro Ito

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • December 12, 2011 01:22
  Hi nRyder,
  Try specify path at the beginning of VBScript of Dropdown box source (OnFillList event).

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