Use Document Metadata

Get the Document ID and Title

Through the Add-on UI SDK Document object, you can retrieve some information about the current document. Currently, there are asynchronous methods that allow you to retrieve the id() of the document and the title(). Also, associated events will let you listen for when the Document ID or the Document Title have changed, respectively via the documentIdAvailable and documentTitleChange events, which you can listen for with the addOnUISdk.app.on() method.

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import addOnUISdk from "https://new.express.adobe.com/static/add-on-sdk/sdk.js";

addOnUISdk.ready.then(() => {

  // Get the document ID
  const docId = await addOnUISdk.app.document.id();
  // urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:679a7c92-33ce-4320-a610-f58ccaf56aa8

  // Get the document title
  const docTitle = await addOnUISdk.app.document.title();

  // Get the document Link
  const docLink = await addOnUISdk.app.document.link();
  
  console.log(`Document ID: ${docId}; Document Title: ${docTitle}`; `Document Link: ${docLink}`);  

  // Listen for document ID change
  addOnUISdk.app.on("documentIdAvailable", data => {
    console.log(`Document ID changed to: ${data.documentId}`);
  });

  // Listen for document title change
  addOnUISdk.app.on("documentTitleChange", data => {
    console.log(`Document title changed to: ${data.documentTitle}`);
  });
});

Last updated 4/13/2025

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