Question

I’ve got a working app that saves a document into a user-specified folder in their collection.
This works fine except when they want to save into their root folder.

According to the docs,

function testGetRoot() {
  var root = DocsList.getRootFolder();
  var folderName = DocsList.getFolderById(rootid);
  Logger.log("Folder name: " + folderName.getName());
}

folderName shows ‘Root’ as the getName for the root of my collection.

So, seeing that I added ‘Root’ to the ListBox that is populated by the names of the other folders in my collection. That of course, was too easy..

**var collectionFolder =  DocsList.getFolder(selectedCollection)**;

I get a ‘cannot find folder Root’ error message.

So I can get the Name of the root, but can’t seem to get it to be accepted by getFolder method.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

You’re not missing anything. You should report this issue in the issue tracker, as it makes sense. But as a alternative, which I’d probably use even if this worked, is referencing always to the folder id. e.g.

listbox.addItem(folder.getName(), folder.getId());

//then, later on in your handler...
//you'll receive the selected folder id directly, instead of its name.
//allowing you to use the more reliable getFolderById
var selectedFolder = DocsList.getFolderById(e.paramater.listbox);
//which works also for the root folder