![]() ![]() To create a new folder in the current remote directory, use the create remote folder command, and specify a value for its name parameter. Once you have connected to a server, you are ready to begin working with remote directories on that server. You can do this by accessing the is connected property of the session. Prior to initiating a new connection, you may want to determine whether a session is already connected to a server. One more thing regarding server connections. tell application "Transmit"Īs we have seen, a document in Transmit has a name, and just like a session, you can get that name at any time by accessing the name property of the document. The following code demonstrates how to retrieve the name of the current session. To determine the name of a given session, you may access the name property of that session. If you are working with a document that contains multiple session tabs, you may interact with any one that you wish, by referring to it by name or index, i.e. Like Safari's ability to display multiple web pages within a single window, this is done through the use of tabs in the document's window. ![]() In Transmit, a single document can actually contain one or more connection sessions. In the example code above, we addressed the initially created session in the new document by referring to the current session property of the document. The connect command, therefore, must be used to initiate the connection to the server. When a new document is created in Transmit, an initial session is automatically created, but is not connected to the server at that time. This variable may also be used later in my code to refer to the document. I have also set a variable named theDocument to the result of the make command, which is a reference to the newly created document. Doing this provides me with a way that I can refer to the document by name later, if I should choose to do so. In this case, I have chosen to use the server IP address for the name of the document. Notice that, in the example code above, I chose to specify a name for the newly created document, as it is created. Set theDocument to make new document with properties Ĭonnect to theServerAddress as user theUserName with password thePassword with initial path Set theDirectory to "Documents/FTP Main/" The following example code demonstrates how this is done. To open a connection to a remote server, you must first create a new document in Transmit, and then open a connection session within that document. If you do not have a separate local machine that can be used to simulate a remote machine, then you will need to gain access to a remote server. However, before you do, you'll want to make sure that your network is secure. If you have the ability to do this on a separate local machine, then you may wish to do so. For testing purposes, I enabled incoming FTP access on an iMac that resides on my local network. The first step in interacting with a remote server is to open a new connection. If you are using a different version of Transmit, then some of the example code specified below may need to be adjusted in order to function with the version that you are using. All example code in this column was written and tested with Transmit version 3.5.1. If you do not own Transmit already, and are interested in following along with the example scripts throughout this month's column, then I would encourage you to download and install the demonstration version. A limited demonstration version is also available for download from the Panic website. It is available for purchase from Panic, Inc. Like Fetch, Transmit is a commercial application. This time, we will use Transmit, another popular application among Mac users. In this month's column, we will continue our discussion of interacting with remote servers via FTP/SFTP. ![]() ![]() In last month's column, we discussed how to script Fetch (), a popular FTP/SFTP client for the Mac. Educational Institution and Student DiscountsĬolumn Tag: AppleScript Essentials An Introduction to Scripting Transmit. ![]()
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