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• • December 4, 2012 at 12:42 pm #63676
    rjcjr

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    I am trying to assign a specific script label to a textFrame, based on that textFrame's contents. For example, if the textFrame contains the string “ABC”, I want to assign “123” to the Script Label.

    This is what I have so far:

    var myDocItems = app.activeDocument.textFrames;

    if(myDocItems[0].contents == “ABC”)

    myDocItems[0].label = “123”;

    Thanks,

    Rob

  • December 4, 2012 at 4:11 pm #63677
    Theunis De Jong

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    I guess we need a bit more to go on, your code runs fine as is. If you need other labels for other contents, just keep repeating the last two lines.

  • December 5, 2012 at 3:05 pm #63682
    rjcjr

    Member

    A couple more things, I'm using CS5 and it seems to be only apply to the first instance it encounters.

    Thanks,

    Rob

  • December 5, 2012 at 3:19 pm #63683
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Well yeah, your script checks only the very first text frame. If you want to check *all* frames, you will have to use a loop:

    var myDocItems = app.activeDocument.textFrames;

    for (i=0; i<myDocItems.length; i++)

    if(myDocItems[i].contents == “ABC”)

    myDocItems[i].label = “123″;

  • December 6, 2012 at 7:40 am #63688
    rjcjr

    Member

    That did it, thanks so much!

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