Updating directory with Folder Browse

Hi! I'm unable to get this to work as the directory path does not get updated to the one i select in Folder Browse. What should i do?

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Dynamomo

@joeyikeeli

You actually have a couple of ways for this to be done:

1 - I would just use the default action type ->Update directory with Folder Browse (default). That way you don't have to even configure anything. this is the best way to configure the action

2 - if you want to just fix what you have... you need to remove the quotation marks around the [#2]

Best practice to debug and see what is going on with your app?

Go to View->Interface Designer
Click on Test View (icon is under the wrench and looks like a magic wand)
enter a directory
click on Open Debug button
A copy of the workflow will open called Debug Workflow# (# being some number)
Look at the directory tool and you can see there how your app changed the value (or if it did and how it did)

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Dynamomo

@joeyikeeli ,

My guess is that the action tool is not configured properly. I'd show us a screenshot of that or create a small workflow with these three tools and send.

joeyikeeli

@Dynamomo

thanks for the response! here is the workflow

New Workflow1.yxmd

Dynamomo

@joeyikeeli

You actually have a couple of ways for this to be done:

1 - I would just use the default action type ->Update directory with Folder Browse (default). That way you don't have to even configure anything. this is the best way to configure the action

2 - if you want to just fix what you have... you need to remove the quotation marks around the [#2]

Best practice to debug and see what is going on with your app?

Go to View->Interface Designer
Click on Test View (icon is under the wrench and looks like a magic wand)
enter a directory
click on Open Debug button
A copy of the workflow will open called Debug Workflow# (# being some number)
Look at the directory tool and you can see there how your app changed the value (or if it did and how it did)

cowatson

I am working with this workflow. I show the directory tool having the updated directory when i run through the debug view, it works. In the directory tool i now have the directory specified in the Folder Browse Tool. However, when when I select "run as an analytic app" and select the folder, and hit finish, I get a pop-up that says "Finished running New Workflow1 in 0.8 seconds There Were No Output Files" I select ok, hit Exit, and the directory on the Directory tool is still blank.

Maybe i am running this wrong?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

pbeeram

I have got same question! I don't see an output when I run analytic app

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