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KristenSw
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January 11, 2023
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document folder IDs

  • January 11, 2023
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Are document folders in WF assigned object IDs?  If so, where can those IDs be found?  I don't see a way to manually navigate to the ID or to pull up IDs in a report.

 

I was able to use Fusion to create a document folder in an existing project.  I wonder if it's possible to add sub-folders.  I see that in the WF API, there are 'Parent ID' and 'linkedFolderID' fields under Document Folder.  Presumably I could specify the object ID of the main folder in one of these fields, but again, I'm not sure how to find that folder's object ID.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

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    lgaertner
    lgaertner
    Level 9
    January 12, 2023

    Hello,

     

    I can confirm, that you do not get the folder ID using the normal ways.

     

    But thanks to help from here, you could create a document report and add a custom column containing the following text mode code

    displayname=Folders listdelimiter= listmethod=nested(Folders).lists textmode=true type=iterate valueexpression={ID} valueformat=HTML

    to show the folder ID. 

     

    Regards

    Lars

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      KristenSwAuthor
      Level 2
      January 12, 2023

      Thanks!  It appears that this solution is dependent upon a folder (or subfolder) already containing at least one document--if a folder is empty, there's no record to display in the document report.

       

      I may need to submit an idea for WF to add a Document Folder report (or to make the folder ID discoverable through a URL).

       

       

       

      lgaertner
      lgaertner
      Level 9
      January 12, 2023

      You could also get a list of all folders and their IDs using the API endpoint 

      docfdr/search
        skyehansen
        Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
        skyehansenCommunity Advisor and Adobe ChampionAccepted solution
        January 13, 2023

        it feels like you're discussing this upcoming functionality in the 23.1 release:

        https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/workfront/using/documents/manage-documents/copy-a-doc-folder-url.html?lang=en

         

         

        the syntax looks like this:

        https://yourdomain.preview.workfront.com/project/PROJECT_GUID/documents?initialFolderID=FOLDER_GUID

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          KristenSwAuthor
          Level 2
          January 13, 2023

          Oh, good!  That will be helpful!.

          ChrisStephens
          Community Advisor
          ChrisStephensCommunity Advisor
          Community Advisor
          January 13, 2023

          Are you trying to do it with fusion? If so, do a search for the folder with the DOCFDR key, and search by folder name & project ID, and have it return the folder ID. Then you can create the subfolder by specifying the project ID, the parent ID (equal to the parent folder ID, found above), and the folder name.

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            KristenSwAuthor
            Level 2
            January 13, 2023

            Thanks!  I was able to get that to work.

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