Replacing findfoldersbyname() with findcontentbyattribute() Content Tools Plugin

Question

I am trying to replace findfoldersbyname() with findcontentbyattribute(), but can only get findcontentbyattribute() to return a List of Content, it returns something like [Content:56629].

Is there any way to return the folder itself instead of [Content:56629]?

findfoldersbyname() returns a folder object and I would like findcontentbyattribute() to do the same or somehow use what it returns ([Content:56629]) to return the folder itself.

mikes0011 · Accepted Answer

I was wondering why index() does not work on the list of content?

Index() is for returning the position in an array. It can also do what property() does and return a dot property. But the result given by the contentByAttribute() plug-in is, as far as I know, basically just an integer - meaning the data doesn't actually have a property called "Content", it's literally just an integer wrapped in a data type ("Content") where the default output is a string that says "[Content:56629]". But this is not a dictionary/CDT, it's just integer data.

In any case, when you wrap such output in tointeger(), anything inside the string that's an integer gets pulled out and returned by the function.

I do notice "tofolder()" doesn't play nicely with the direct output of the function. But when you wrap the output in tointeger() first it seems ok.

a!localVariables(
  local!directOutput: findcontentbyattribute(
    searchAllContent: false(),
    contentType: "folder",
    attributeName: "name",
    searchCriteria: "Additional Documents",
    rootFolder: 12345
  ),
  
  /* tofolder() and tointeger() both play nice with array inputs, so no real need to do a!forEach() here */
  tofolder(tointeger(local!directOutput))
)

mikes0011 · Answer

At the end of the day, a folder is just an ID, regardless of what data type it's been wrapped in.  What happens when you wrap the output in toFolder()?

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