Question

I’m attempting to use Google Docs’ ability to run scripts to create the necessary folder structure for new clients (to upload content/images into). Here’s what I have thusfar:

/**
 * This script creates the necessary folder structure for a new client
 */
function newClientSetup() {

  var initial = DocsList.getFolder("Clients");
  var client = DocsList.addtoFolder.createFolder("Client Name");
  var file = DocsList.addtoFolder(client);

};

Now this is not working (TypeError: Cannot call method "createFolder" of undefined. (line 7)), but I’m having trouble figuring out how to use the Folder class within DocList. I saw that DocsList has a createFolder method, that I could use like:

var folder = DocsList.createFolder("Folder Name");

but I’m trying to start off with a parent folder, called Clients (already in Google Docs) and then create the following structure:

Clients
    Client Name
        Content
        Images

Ideally I could run this script, but pass in a variable for Client Name to actually create the client name, but I haven’t found much help from the docs. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Answer 1

Here is an example of how it works, see comments :

function createSubFolder(subfolder) { // the argument is the name of the folder you want to create
    var parentfolder = DocsList.getFolder('Clients'); //begin in the client folder (you could also open by Id, I prefer the ID as I find it more failsafe (ID are unique, names aren't necessarily 
    var newFolder = DocsList.createFolder(subfolder); // create the new subfolder from the argument of the function
    newFolder.addToFolder(parentfolder);// add the newly created folder to 'Clients'
}   

to test this function simply use something like this :

function test(){
    createSubFolder('test');// this will create a new folder called test in your Clients folder
}

note : to get the ID of your folder, take the value right behind folders/ in the url of the folder. Example in bold : https://drive.google.com/?hl=fr&tab=wo#folders/0B3qSFxxxxxxxxxdsMTFZMDQ

The sequence might be much longer if you have more folder levels… but the structure is always the same and is unique for every folder.