MonteDelMar
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Using VBA to work with folders in Sharepoint
Hi Experts
I am trying to get information about a folder on Sharepoint using VBA (Word).
The relevant code is:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.Fi
fso.GetFolder strPath
The GetFolder bit always gives me an error saying that the path does not exist.
If I open a file from the path in questions and use VBA to return the path, it is:
http://xxxx111/sites/xxx1/ART/DP%20Marketing%20(0000)/Brochure%20Designs
In theory this is what I pass to the above as strPath.
I have also tried the following formats:
http://xxxx111/sites/xxx1/ART/DP Marketing (0000)/Brochure Designs
http://xxxx111/sites/xxx1/ART/DP Marketing (0000)/Brochure Designs/
http://xxxx111\sites\xxx1\ART\DP Marketing (0000)\Brochure Designs
http://xxxx111\sites\xxx1\ART\DP Marketing (0000)\Brochure Designs\
The portion of the path
http://xxxx111/
is a mapped drive (P:\) and I have also tried the following formats:
P:/sites/xxx1/ART/DP Marketing (0000)/Brochure Designs
P:/sites/xxx1/ART/DP Marketing (0000)/Brochure Designs/
P:\sites\xxx1\ART\DP Marketing (0000)\Brochure Designs
P:\sites\xxx1\ART\DP Marketing (0000)\Brochure Designs\
But it still does not work. Always returns runtime error 52 , bad file name or number.
I am trying to do various other things in other parts of the code, such as create a new folder, but this has similar problems. I've tried MkDir and MakeSureFolderExists and also fso.CreateFolder.
I can't help feeling that I am missing something obvious but can you tell me what it is, please?
Many thanks.
I am trying to get information about a folder on Sharepoint using VBA (Word).
The relevant code is:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.Fi
fso.GetFolder strPath
The GetFolder bit always gives me an error saying that the path does not exist.
If I open a file from the path in questions and use VBA to return the path, it is:
http://xxxx111/sites/xxx1/ART/DP%20Marketing%20(0000)/Brochure%20Designs
In theory this is what I pass to the above as strPath.
I have also tried the following formats:
http://xxxx111/sites/xxx1/ART/DP Marketing (0000)/Brochure Designs
http://xxxx111/sites/xxx1/ART/DP Marketing (0000)/Brochure Designs/
http://xxxx111\sites\xxx1\ART\DP Marketing (0000)\Brochure Designs
http://xxxx111\sites\xxx1\ART\DP Marketing (0000)\Brochure Designs\
The portion of the path
http://xxxx111/
is a mapped drive (P:\) and I have also tried the following formats:
P:/sites/xxx1/ART/DP Marketing (0000)/Brochure Designs
P:/sites/xxx1/ART/DP Marketing (0000)/Brochure Designs/
P:\sites\xxx1\ART\DP Marketing (0000)\Brochure Designs
P:\sites\xxx1\ART\DP Marketing (0000)\Brochure Designs\
But it still does not work. Always returns runtime error 52 , bad file name or number.
I am trying to do various other things in other parts of the code, such as create a new folder, but this has similar problems. I've tried MkDir and MakeSureFolderExists and also fso.CreateFolder.
I can't help feeling that I am missing something obvious but can you tell me what it is, please?
Many thanks.
Jamie McAllister
Just for a test, could you supply a different folder path that doesn't have spaces and see if it works?
ASKER
I will give it a go, Jamie - and thanks for your reply. The code works if I am writing to the local drive - it's just the UNC path that seems to be the problem. I cannot try anything until Friday now but will post back then.
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Sorry, I wasn't able to test this until today. It was doen to the format I was using for the UNC path - I needed to remove the 'http' portion and replace all the forward slashes with backslashes. Thank you for your help, Jamie. I had tried changing the slashes but would never have thought to remove http.