How to use the "open" action

One of the most requested and appreciated actions is the open-action. In this guide, you will be taught how to master it!

What does it do?

It opens a file, a folder or everything in a folder - you decide!

How?

The official AssistantComputerControl IFTTT page contains pre-made applets ("functions", commands if you will) for the software, but the open action requires a bit more than just pressing "Enable". The [ACC] Open file (example) applet (Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa) requires you to tell it which file or folder you wish it to open. By default, the content of this applet is open:example.txt. The open: part is required, and should stay that way, but everything after the colon (:) is where the magic happens.

Open files

Say you want to open a Word document. You either write the entire path (example; C:/User/me/Documents/my_awesome_word_document.docx), or place the Word-file in the ACC data folder, which is located at Documents/AssistantComputerControl/. In this folder you'll find a sub-folder called "shortcuts". Everything placed here will not require a full path, so if your Word-document was placed in the shortcuts folder, the applet could look like this; open:my_easily_accessibly_word.docx.

Both of these options work, and will open the file for you.

Open folders

Opening folders is pretty much the same as opening files. You just write the folder-path with no specific file or file-extension in the end.

Examples;

• open:myawesomefolder
• open:myawesomefolder/and_awesome_subfolder
• open:C:/user/me/Documents/another_folder

Opening folders was added in release v1.1.0