Script Append getting Exception: Action Not Allowed.

[marka...@gmail.com]

 I'm trying to get a script working where several Google Documents are merged into a single document and keep running into  an error with Exception: Action Not Allowed on one of the documents that has 2 inline drawings, which are black bars with white text inside the bars. In the code I have both element types of Inline_Drawing and Inline_Image specified, but it keeps failing. If I remove the inline bars, the script continues on, but fails with the bar drawings inline. And this is not a case where several people are logged into the same account...I'm the only person logged into my account.

  This is a test script I've been playing with trying to get this to work.

This is the error message - Exception: Action not allowed (line 40, file "Code"

Line 40 is this statement: comboBody.appendParagraph(elem);

function listFiles() {

   var fname = 'Mark' ;

   var lname = 'Amezquita' ;

   var sfolder = 'Sellers' ;

   var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();

   var folders = DriveApp.getFoldersByName('Masters ' +fname + ' ' +lname); 

   

   if (folders.hasNext())

    folderID = folders.next().getId();

    var dfolder = DriveApp.getFolderById(folderID); 

    

   var contents = dfolder.getFolders();

    

   while(contents.hasNext()) {

    file = contents.next();

    name = file.getName(); 

    if (name == sfolder) {

     var sfid = file.getId();

    var folder = DriveApp.getFolderById(sfid) ;

    var combinedTitle = "Combined Document Example";

    var combo = DocumentApp.create('Combined Seller Docs');

    var comboBody = combo.getBody();

    var files = folder.getFiles();

    while (files.hasNext()) {

      var file = files.next();

      // Print list of files inside the folder

      var src = DocumentApp.openById(file.getId());

      var srcBody = src.getBody();

      var elems = srcBody.getNumChildren();

      for (var i = 0; i < elems; i++ ) {

      elem = srcBody.getChild(i).copy();

      // fire the right method based on elem's type  

      

      switch (elem.getType()) {

        case DocumentApp.ElementType.PARAGRAPH:

          comboBody.appendParagraph(elem);

        break;    

      

       case DocumentApp.ElementType.INLINE_DRAWING:

         comboBody.appendInlineDrawing(elem);

        break;   

         

       case DocumentApp.ElementType.INLINE_IMAGE:

         comboBody.appendInlineImage(elem);  

        break;   

         

       case DocumentApp.ElementType.HORIZONTAL_RULE:

          comboBody.appendHorizontalRule();  

        break;    

          

       case DocumentApp.ElementType.BODY_SECTION:

          comboBody.appendBodySection();   

        break;   

          

       case DocumentApp.ElementType.LIST_ITEM:

          comboBody.appendListItem(elem); 

        break;      

                      

      }

     }

      comboBody.appendPageBreak();

    } 

   }   

  } 

 }

 

  I've attached a sample of the document that it fails on with the Action Not Allowed error. I'm at a loss as to why the failure and any insight would be appreciated. The bars are created by doing a Insert of a Drawing, then adding a text box, filling in  the text inside the box and filling in the colors. So not sure why it's failing when it encounters the bars. This is the first document in the folder but the goal is to append all the documents, 7, into a single doc. The logo and header line appear in the created doc, but that's it and then it fails. If this document is removed from the folder, the script works appending the other documents into one. Thanks.

[Raffi Bilek]

Did you ever solve this? I'm having the same thing.

[Ricardo Matias de Carvalho]

I am facing same problem. Any guess?