Wg Info from .txt Error 3.58b209011

[1984]

Hello, I could have sworn this was working after update 3.58b209011 but maybe it quit when I opened KLWP to edit something. I use a formula to pull info from a local text file but it seems to be broken now no matter what I do. I've even moved the file to the specified kustom directory and it still returns ;

err: file '/storage/emulated/0/Documents/quotes.txt' cannot be read.

Or whichever variation of directory it's stored in.

If there is a new method of pulling data from local files, I'm sorry for wasting anyone's time. Would definitely love to know what it was so I could fix this. It's just a basic random quote generator.

Thank you very much for your time.

[Ute]

I’ve got exactly the same problem. I created a simple text file with quotes I wanted to have displayed in a widget and always get the error message
err: java.io.ioexception: unable to read file /storage/emulated/0/quotes.txt

Version 3.73b314510

Double checked on all used formula, there’s no error in there.

Would be nice if someone could help.

[frank]

Did you try to use flows to access local files and then set a global with the text instead? With flows you can grant access to any folder and then read a file from it, that should be more stable than using direct file access that unfortunately its not working well with new storage API introduced in latest Android requirements.

[Ute]

Thank you, Frank. Is there any instruction how to do that? I have to admit that I’m a complete layman in this.

[frank]

Sorry for the delay, so, let’s assume that:

• your weather is a TXT file and you want to display it in a text box
• the file is called foo.txt and its in the Documents folder

Then you need to:

• Go to the “Flows” tab, add a new flow
• Add a manual trigger
• Add a Document action, in the document action select the folder and use a filter to match the name like this:
  
  
• Add a formula action to read as text the file, formula should be like $wg(#last, txt)$, where #last in flows is the local var containing the last result, off course you can also use json or others here
• Then add an action to set content to a global:
  
  

The flow should look like this:

You can now press “test flow” and see content stored:

In this case file content was “ciao”

When is this run? When you set a manual trigger it will be triggered via touch (you need to associate a touch action), you can also trigger it on a time basis or formula basis. Right now triggering a flow when a file changes is not supported

Hope it helps.