Reply To: Copying all GREP-styles from one paragraph style to annother

I’ve made an improvement to John’s script that presents a dialog box to select a “source” Paragraph style (instead of going into the code and typing the paragraph style out each time the script needs to be run). From there, the script runs as per John’s script:

//https://forums.adobe.com/thread/681085 (Ariel’s script to select a paragraph style)
//https://forums.adobe.com/message/5888276 (jkorchok2’s script to apply grep styles from a predefined paragraph style)
//This utility will copy GREP styles into styles that are nested in up to two levels of groups i.e. Main Style Group>Headings Group>Heading 1
myDoc = app.activeDocument;
myStyle = SelectParagraph();

function SelectParagraph(){
mydialog = app.dialogs.add({name:”Source Paragraph Style”, canCancel:true});
myStyles = myDoc.allParagraphStyles;
var mystring = [];
for (aa = 0; aa < myStyles.length; aa ++){
mystring[aa] = myStyles[aa].name;
if (myStyles[aa].parent.constructor.name == “ParagraphStyleGroup”) mystring[aa]+=” [“+myStyles[aa].parent.name+”]”;
}
with (mydialog.dialogColumns.add()){
staticTexts.add({staticLabel:”Please choose:”});
}
with (mydialog.dialogColumns.add()){
mymenu = dropdowns.add({stringList:mystring, selectedIndex:0});
}
if (mydialog.show()) myresult = myStyles[mymenu.selectedIndex]
else myresult =-1;
mydialog.destroy();
return(myresult);
}

var theDoc = app.activeDocument;
var pStyles = theDoc.allParagraphStyles;
var pStyleStringList = [];// listbox
fillpStyleStringList();
var getpStyleIndexinpStyles = selectpStyle(pStyleStringList);
var selectedpStylesByName = getSelectedpStyleNames(getpStyleIndexinpStyles);
l = selectedpStylesByName.length;

while(l–){setGrepStyle([selectedpStylesByName[l][0]],[selectedpStylesByName[l][1]],[selectedpStylesByName[l][2]])}

function fillpStyleStringList(){
for(i = 0 ; i < pStyles.length; i++){
if(pStyles[i].parent.parent.toString() === ‘[object ParagraphStyleGroup]’){
pStyleStringList.push(‘Group: ‘ + pStyles[i].parent.parent.name + ‘, Subgroup: ‘ + pStyles[i].parent.name + ‘, Name: ‘ + pStyles[i].name);
}else if(pStyles[i].parent.toString() === ‘[object ParagraphStyleGroup]’){
pStyleStringList.push(‘Subgroup: ‘ + pStyles[i].parent.name + ‘, Name: ‘ + pStyles[i].name);
}else{
pStyleStringList.push(‘Name: ‘ + pStyles[i].name);
}
}
}

function selectpStyle (array){
var myWindow = new Window (“dialog”, “Please select the target paragraph styles.”);
var myInputGroup = myWindow.add (“group”);
var select = myInputGroup.add (“listbox”, [0, 0, 300, 300], array, {scrolling: true, multiselect: true});
var myButtonGroup = myWindow.add (“group”);
myButtonGroup.add (“button”, undefined, “OK”);
myButtonGroup.add (“button”, undefined, “Cancel”);
if (myWindow.show() == 1){
var mySelection = select.selection;
var tmpList = [];
for(g = 0; g < mySelection.length; g++){
tmpList.push(mySelection[g].index);
}
return tmpList;
myWindow.close();
}else{
exit();
}
}

function getSelectedpStyleNames(getpStylesIndexinpStyles){
var currentTargetpStyleName;
var SelectedNameArray = new Array();
for(j = 0; j < getpStylesIndexinpStyles.length; j++){
var tempArray = new Array(2);
currentTargetpStyleName = pStyles[getpStyleIndexinpStyles[j]].name;
currentTargetpStyleSubgroup = pStyles[getpStyleIndexinpStyles[j]].parent.name;
currentTargetpStyleGroup = pStyles[getpStyleIndexinpStyles[j]].parent.parent.name;
tempArray[0] = currentTargetpStyleGroup;
tempArray[1] = currentTargetpStyleSubgroup;
tempArray[2] = currentTargetpStyleName;
SelectedNameArray[j] = tempArray;
}
return SelectedNameArray;
}

function setGrepStyle(targetGroup, targetSubgroup, targetName){
var target
error = “”;
basepStyle = myresult;
if (!basepStyle.isValid) error = ‘Source style does not exist’;
if(targetGroup != “” && targetGroup != theDoc.name && targetGroup != app.name){
var temptarget = theDoc.paragraphStyleGroups.itemByName(targetGroup.toString());
target = temptarget.paragraphStyleGroups.itemByName(targetSubgroup.toString()).paragraphStyles.itemByName(targetName.toString());
}else if(targetSubgroup != “” && targetSubgroup != theDoc.name && targetSubgroup != app.name){
target = theDoc.paragraphStyleGroups.itemByName(targetSubgroup.toString()).paragraphStyles.itemByName(targetName.toString());
}else{
target = theDoc.paragraphStyles.itemByName(targetName.toString());
}
if (!target.isValid) error += ‘\rTarget style does not exist’;
if (error != “”){alert (error); exit()}
gs = basepStyle.nestedGrepStyles;
for (i = 0; i < gs.length; i++){
target.nestedGrepStyles.add (gs[i].properties);
}
}