Hi All
This post is a repeat of one I’ve submitted in the InDesign scripting forum at adobe.com so I apologise for that, however I’m casting a wider net in the hope of solving something that has had me stumped for a few days now…
Although I have had great success in automating report creation using scripting and InDesign’s data merge function with simple text frames, I am having no success in getting dataMergeTextPlaceholders into table cells using scripting.
I tried to add one using the following code (considerably simplified from my actual code):
myStory = myTable.rows[0].cells[0].texts[0].parentStory; // hopefully the Story for the first cell in the table?
myStoryOffset = myStory.insertionPoints[-1];
myDataMergeField = getDataMergeField(fieldName, myDocument);
myFieldHolder = myDocument.dataMergeTextPlaceholders.add(myStory, myStoryOffset, myDataMergeField);
However the result of that was to add the field to the parent text frame of the table, i.e. entirely outside the table
When I do this manually in InDesign I don’t need to create any additional text frames, I can just add the placeholder directly into the cell, so I wouldn’t expect to have to do much more than correctly address the location (in terms of the Object Model hierarchy) of the table cell content.
So, to sum up my situation:
I can successfully add dataMergeTextPlaceholders to text frames.
I cannot add them to table cells, as I can’t work out how to get to the ‘Story’ associated with the table cell content.
Any assistance will be appreciated :)
Regards
Mick
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