VBS Save File From Link - excel

Question

I wonder whether someone can help me please.
I wanting to use this solution in a script I'm trying to put together, but I'm a little unsure about how to make a change which needs to be made.
You'll see in the solution that the file type which is opened is a Excel and indeed it's saved as such. But I the files I'd like to open and save are a mixture of .docx and .dat (Used by Dragon software) files.
Could someone possible tell me please is there a way by which I can amend the code so it opens and saves the files in file types other than Excel workbooks.
The reason behind this question because I'm currently using a script which creates a list of files in a Excel spreadsheet from a given folder. For each file that is retrieved there is a hyperlink, which I'd like to add fucntionality to which enables the user to copy the file and save it to a location of their choice.
To help this is the code which I use to create the list of files.
Public Sub ListFilesInFolder(SourceFolder As Scripting.folder, IncludeSubfolders As Boolean)
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim fName As String
On Error Resume Next
For Each FileItem In SourceFolder.Files
' display file properties
Cells(iRow, 3).Formula = iRow - 12
Cells(iRow, 4).Formula = FileItem.Name
Cells(iRow, 5).Formula = FileItem.Path
Cells(iRow, 6).Select
Selection.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Selection, Address:= _
FileItem.Path, TextToDisplay:="Click Here to Open"
iRow = iRow + 1 ' next row number
With ActiveSheet
LastRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "C").End(xlUp).Row
LastRow = Cells.Find("*", SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Row
End With
For Each Cell In Range("C13:F" & LastRow) ''change range accordingly
If Cell.Row Mod 2 = 1 Then ''highlights row 2,4,6 etc|= 0 highlights 1,3,5
Cell.Interior.Color = RGB(232, 232, 232) ''color to preference
Else
Cell.Interior.Color = RGB(141, 180, 226) 'color to preference or remove
End If
Next Cell
Next FileItem
If IncludeSubfolders Then
For Each SubFolder In SourceFolder.SubFolders
ListFilesInFolder SubFolder, True
Next SubFolder
End If
Set FileItem = Nothing
Set SourceFolder = Nothing
Set FSO = Nothing
End Sub
Many thanks and kind regards
Chris

Answer 1

Miguel provided a fantastic solution which on initial testing appeared to work 100%. But as you will see from the comments at the end of the post there were some issues when the user cancelled the operation, so I made another post at this link where the problems were ironed out. Many thanks and kind regards. Chris

Answer 2

The code below shows how to retrieve the extension of a file, define an array with “allowed” extensions, and match the extension of the file to the array.
This is the outline for file manipulation, you'll just need to tailor it to you needs
Dim MinExtensionX
Dim Arr() As Variant
Dim lngLoc As Variant
'Retrieve extension of file
MinExtensionX = Mid(MyFile.Name, InStrRev(MyFile.Name, ".") + 1)
Arr = Array("xls", "xlsx", "docx", "dat") 'define which extensions you want to allow
On Error Resume Next
lngLoc = Application.WorksheetFunction.Match(MinExtensionX, Arr(), 0)
If Not IsEmpty(lngLoc) Then '
'check which kind of extension you are working with and create proper obj manipulation
If MinExtensionX = "docx" then
Set wApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
wApp.DisplayAlerts = False
Set wDoc = wApp.Documents.Open (Filename:="C:\Documents\SomeWordTemplate.docx", ReadOnly:=True)
'DO STUFF if it's an authorized file. Then Save file.
With wDoc
.ActiveDocument.SaveAs Filename:="C:\Documents\NewWordDocumentFromTemplate.docx"
End With
wApp.DisplayAlerts = True
End if
End If
For files .Dat its a bit more complex, specially if you need to open/process data from the file, but this might help you out.
Edit:
2: Comments added
Hi IRHM,
I think you want something like this:
'Worksheet_FollowHyperlink' is an on click event that occurs every time you click on an Hyperlink within a Worksheet, You can find more here
Private Sub Worksheet_FollowHyperlink(ByVal Target As Hyperlink)
'disable events so the user doesn't see the codes selection
Application.EnableEvents = False
Dim FSO
Dim sFile As String
Dim sDFolder As String
Dim thiswb As Workbook ', wb As Workbook
'Define workbooks so we don't lose scope while selecting sFile(thisworkbook = workbook were the code is located).
Set thiswb = thisworkbook
'Set wb = ActiveWorkbook ' This line was commented out because we no longer need to cope with 2 excel workbooks open at the same time.
'Target.Range.Value is the selection of the Hyperlink Path. Due to the address of the Hyperlink being "" we just assign the value to a
'temporary variable which is not used so the Click on event is still triggers
temp = Target.Range.Value
'Activate the wb, and attribute the File.Path located 1 column left of the Hyperlink/ActiveCell
thiswb.Activate
sFile = Cells(ActiveCell.Row, ActiveCell.Column - 1).Value
'Declare a variable as a FileDialog Object
Dim fldr As FileDialog
'Create a FileDialog object as a File Picker dialog box.
Set fldr = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker)
'Allow only single selection on Folders
fldr.AllowMultiSelect = False
'Show Folder picker dialog box to user and wait for user action
fldr.Show
'add the end slash of the path selected in the dialog box for the copy operation
sDFolder = fldr.SelectedItems(1) & "\"
'FSO System object to copy the file
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
' Copy File from (source = sFile), destination , (Overwrite True = replace file with the same name)
FSO.CopyFile (sFile), sDFolder, True
' check if there's multiple excel workbooks open and close workbook that is not needed
' section commented out because the Hyperlinks no longer Open the selected file
' If Not thiswb.Name = wb.Name Then
' wb.Close
' End If
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub
The above code Triggers when you click the Hyperlink and it promps a folder selection window.
You just need to paste the code into the Worksheet code. And you should be good to go.