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• • July 20, 2011 at 2:10 am #60090
    simondawdry

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    Hi,

    I'm new to indesign scripting, and working with indesign server CS5 and Javascript.

    I'm working on a script to find text within an indd document, and retrieve the page(s) it appears on. I have this so far, cobbled together from various sources and hopefully some kind soul will take pity on me and have a look to see where I'm going wrong!

    result = (myFindResult + “is on page” + myPageName);myPageName = myFindResult.text.item(0).parentTextFrame.name;myFindResult = mySearch.item(0);mySearch = app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = “text”;

    Any suggestions gratefully received,

    Simon

  • July 20, 2011 at 8:32 am #60092
    Kasyan Servetsky

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    Hi Simon,

    Here is a simple example:

    var doc = app.activeDocument;
    // clear find change text preferences before search
    app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
    // this is scripting equivalent of the 'Find What:' edit text field
    app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = “text”;
    // search it in the active document
    // you can also search it in almost everywhere: story, text frame, paragraph, line, word, etc
    var finds = doc.findText();
    if (finds.length > 0) { // something has been found
    // for the 1st found item display the name of the page where the 1st text frame (there can be several threaded frames) containing it is located
    alert(“Found ” + finds.length + ” items, the first of them is on page ” + finds[0].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.name);
    }
    else { // found nothing
    alert(“Nothing has been found”);
    }
    // clear find change text preferences after search
    app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;

    Hope this helps.
    Kasyan

  • July 20, 2011 at 8:38 am #60093
    Kasyan Servetsky

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    I wrote this in desktop version of InDesign so that to demonstrate my approach. Alerts will not work in InDesign server.

  • July 20, 2011 at 8:46 am #60094
    simondawdry

    Member

    fantastic, many thanks for the reply Kaysan, I'll give that code a go and let you know how I get on :-)

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