Digital Workshop

Hi,

I've been trying to use the copy file action in an Opus Professional v9 (export to EXE) pub without success. (Need to copy several, maybe up to 80 PNG files from one directory to another, within the pub directory.)

The script action using SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR, an image folder and a wildcard (for PNG's) doesn't work for me:



I've also tried the standard action "Copy File" with the pathnames (SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR\images5\*.png, SYSTEM_PUBLICATION_DIR\images2), which doesn't work. Tried single\, double \\ and forward slashes / and //, without success.

As a test, can't even get a single (named) PNG file to copy over.

Not sure what I am doing wrong?

You have to specify the file name for both the copy from and copy to.

Mack

Hi Mack,

Thank you for your suggestion.

If I use a single file, specifying its file name (for example, full.png), it copies over. But when I try a wildcard and PNG in both to and from, but no specific file name, still doesn't work (neither for scripted nor standard actions). I've got a lot of files to copy over. Would not want to use 80 separate actions. Since file names are user choice, created in a C# utility app, no easy way to iterate through the names, log them.

Looks like wildcards are the problem.

No you can't use a wild card - you must give a file name.

If you have a lot of files, you need some way of reading this into a list for iterating and then replace the file name with a variable - like such:



Mack

Hi Mack,

Thank you for this suggestion.

User sets file names, so may be challenging to figure out a way to read these into a list.

Even with your example, not sure my scripting is up to it.

But may be worth a try.

Alternative: Although initially not sure, my changed thinking is that I can probably build something into the C# utility app to do what is needed.