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pgSystemTester
pgSystemTester

Reputation: 9907

Google App Scripts Method to Create a Shortcut to Google Drive File

I'm trying to automate the process of creating a shortcut/link to a Google file as one would manually do by right-clicking on a file and seeing the below screen and clicking "Add shortcut to Drive"

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Looking through Google's Documentation on file object shows no actionable methods of this feature, only pulls (i.e. getTargetId(), etc).

I'm pretty sure this isn't available but I thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone had any ideas. I see a couple posts using some external API's and firefox which isn't what I'm trying to do.

If I were to guess what code such code would look like, it would be something like this....

function makeSomeFileLink(){
  var theFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById("wdflasdjflaskdjfklsadjflk")
  var aFile = DriveApp.getFileById("1VjOkMPBDr???????????qkZqPCQWOvBbIt_6GawA");
  var myNewBookMark = aFile.makeShortCutAndPutInInThisFolder(theFolder);
}

Obviously, that last row of code is problematic (i.e. I made it up), I'm just trying to illustrate what I'm looking for.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 524

Answers (1)

Tanaike
Tanaike

Reputation: 201358

When you want to create a shortcut of the file aFile to the folder of theFolder, how about the following modified script?

Modified script:

function makeSomeFileLink(){
  var theFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById("wdflasdjflaskdjfklsadjflk");
  var aFile = DriveApp.getFileById("1VjOkMPBDr???????????qkZqPCQWOvBbIt_6GawA");
  DriveApp.createShortcut(aFile.getId()).moveTo(theFolder);
}
  • Of course, in this case, you can directly put the file ID of "1VjOkMPBDr???????????qkZqPCQWOvBbIt_6GawA" to createShortcut.

Reference:

Upvotes: 1

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