Create directory

[Former Member]

Hello all.

How can i create a directory using the servers point of view and not the frontend point of view?

Thank you

Nuno Silva

[Former Member]

Hi,

Try with the Function Module GUI_CREATE_DIRECTORY.

Satya

[Former Member]

ru referring to as creation of directory in application server....this will be normally done by the basis guys and the authorization is limited according to user requirements.

[Former Member]

What i mean is the same way you use OPEN DATASET to create files i need to create directorys.

GUI_CREATE_DIRECTORY won't do, because it's the frontend that creates the directory. What i need is the server to create the directory.

Thank you

Nuno Silva

[michael-john_turner]

The easiest way to do it programmatically is to call an external command, as configured in SM69. You can use the various function modules in function group SXPT to execute the defined commands (eg SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE).

To create a directory, create a command that calls, eg, "cmd /c mkdir directoryname" (assuming Windows, for Unix you'll need to call eg "/bin/sh mkdir directoryname") and then call that with function module SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE.

MJ

[Former Member]

data:v_ path type string.

data: v_rc type sy-subrc.

path = '
<SERVER_IP_ADDRESS>\PATH\DIRECTORY_NAME'.

CALL METHOD CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES=>DIRECTORY_CREATE

EXPORTING

DIRECTORY = v_path

CHANGING

RC = v_rc

EXCEPTIONS

DIRECTORY_CREATE_FAILED = 1

CNTL_ERROR = 2

ERROR_NO_GUI = 3

PATH_NOT_FOUND = 4

DIRECTORY_ACCESS_DENIED = 5

DIRECTORY_ALREADY_EXISTS = 6

UNKNOWN_ERROR = 7

others = 8

.

IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.

• MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO

• WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.

ENDIF.

Regards

Kathirvel