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If you're looking for an AutoCapture script to browse folders, then this post is for you. It uses a String List field to provide the folder navigation, as there isn't a tree field available in AutoCapture. To get started, prepare an AutoStore configuration using the AutoCapture and Send to Folder components. Open the AutoCapture component, and add a new Form. Then ... Add a new field. We'll use Folder for the field Name . Set the Type  option to String list . Make the field Required . Enable the Run script on field change setting. Enable the Run on form load setting. Click the [...] button to open the script editor. Now, onto the script. Here's the short-list of what it does: In the script, define the starting folder. Move into a folder by selecting the item. With a folder selected, the list is refreshed with any of its subfolders. Navigate Back, and the list is refreshed with those folders. Stops Back navigation once arrived the start path....

Can an AutoCapture list field be loaded with the folder names located in a particular directory? The short answer is absolutely, and in this post, we'll look at a simple example which does just that. Where a folder lookup can be useful is when the name of the subfolder represents an entity within its parent folder, and a fresh list is needed to complete the destination path. To illustrate, let's begin by examining a Vendors folder that contains subfolders representing different vendors. Shared Drive Accounting Vendors Vendor A Vendor B Vendor C Vendor D The Vendor names could be manually added to an AutoCapture String list field, or also added dynamically using a form script. We'll examine a couple of touch points: Loading the list field Default a blank list item We'll begin by building a new configuration using the AutoCapture capture component, and the Send to Folder route component. Create an AutoCapture form, and add a new String L...