Question

I’m making a little script to automatically organize some autogenerated spreadsheets. The goal is to archive the spreadsheets in a directory based on their name (all of them start with the same name but end in a pattern I’m using to organize them). The problem I have is with the function:

lstFile = DocsList.find('type:spreadsheet title:"PROG_GRAL_CENTRE"');

The function doesn’t have the query options specified in the docs, but I’m using it on another script and is working fine! I’ve also tried putting only:

lstFile = DocsList.find('PROG_GRAL_CENTRE');

which should find 200 documents, but none is found! Actually, if I type PROG_GRAL_CENTRE into the search box of my google Drive, all the documents are found, so I don’t know what’s wrong with my search filter.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

The method find(query) looks for a string in file content, not only on file name… so even it it worked normally (meaning without the issue you mentioned) I’m not sure it would be a good solution for your use case since there would be a risk that some filename could be found inside another doc with another name (as a reference for example…).

Why don’t you try getting all filenames in an array and search into this array instead ?
This can be done very easily and would bring an elegant solution to your problem wouldn’t it ?

I’m working on this very same type of script right now 😉 here is the part that gets my files (just an example if ever you are interested):

var doclist=DocsList.getRootFolder().getFilesByType("document",0,2000);
var names = new Array();
  for (nn=0;nn<doclist.length;++nn){
    if(doclist[nn].getName().match("IMPRESSION_")=="IMPRESSION_"){
  names.push([doclist[nn].getName(),doclist[nn].getId()]);
  }
  }

after that I sort the array the way I want and show the result in a list UI.