Trying to find out if app.execMenuItem() was a success

[Thomas_McConnac]

Hello,



I'm trying to build a save and close button and want the close to only work if the save was successful.



I'm hitting 2 problems:

-app.execMenuItem("Save") doesn't seem to work, I would liek it to but could use app.execMenuItem("SaveAs") as that does work

-I cannot find out if the save was successful, I can only get it to return "undefined". Does this mean it has no value, or that it just can't read what it is returning?



Many thanks,



Tom

[Former Community Member]

You cannot do an automatic save ....security is stopping you from doing so. You can do a SaveAs and you know it worked because the user sees a dialog.

[George_Johnson]

You should use the doc.saveAs method instead, but there are security restrictions that you have to deal with. It will throw an error if unsuccessful. For closing, use the doc.closeDoc method.



George

[Thomas_McConnac]

Ah, it will throw an error, so a "catch (e)" will work?



Tom

[George_Johnson]

Yes.