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• • February 7, 2019 at 6:44 pm #114221
    Kasra Yousefi

    Member

    Greetings,

    Sometimes when trying to tag a document, I receive an error mentioning the tagging is impossible due to partial selection of a hyperlink in the text. (which is not the case, I.e. I didn’t partially selected a hyperlink)

    This happens while the cross-reference panel is empty. (but looking into story editor, I can see the cross reference hidden markers.)

    My solution for the time being to this is either:

    Going to story editor, and manually finding and removing these orphan cross-references.

    Or using the following script to remove all the cross references and links:

    var activeDocument = app.activeDocument;

    app.activeDocument.hyperlinkTextDestinations.everyItem().remove();

    app.activeDocument.hyperlinkTextSources.everyItem().remove();

    app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.everyItem().remove();

    Now, is there a more elegant way to find and remove these orphan cross references?

    Also, in case of the answer being negative, is there a way to only select only cross references and not all the links in the code? Because this way I lose all my hyperlinks and bookmarks and I have to redefine them from scratch.

    Thanks,
    Kasra

  • April 16, 2021 at 1:18 am #14338583
    Emil Barbaric

    Member

    I have a similar problem with unused (hidden) cross references imported from Word document.
    I end up with this two scripts:
    First removes unused CR all at once, and second which show position of CR and then ask you if you want to delete one or proceed to next one

    // —- First One —-

    Array.prototype.exists = function(search){
    for (var i=0; i<this.length; i++)
    if (this[i] == search) return true;
    return false;
    }

    var allUsedSources = getHyperlinksUsedSources(); // ALL hyperlink sources
    var allCRSources = app.activeDocument.crossReferenceSources.everyItem().getElements(); //All Cros Reference Sources
    var counter = 0;

    // Check if Cros Reference Source is used
    for (var i = allCRSources.length-1;i >= 0; i–){
    if (!allUsedSources.exists(allCRSources[i])){
    allCRSources[i].remove();
    counter++;
    }
    }

    alert (“Deleted ” + counter + ” unused Cross reference sources”);

    function getHyperlinksUsedSources(){
    return app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.everyItem().source;
    }

    // — END —

    //— Second One —-

    Array.prototype.exists = function(search){
    for (var i=0; i<this.length; i++)
    if (this[i] == search) return true;
    return false;
    }

    var allUsedSources = getHyperlinksUsedSources();
    var allCRSources = app.activeDocument.crossReferenceSources.everyItem().getElements();
    var counter = 0;

    for (var i = allCRSources.length-1;i >= 0; i–){
    var myBoolean = allUsedSources.exists(allCRSources[i]);
    if (!allUsedSources.exists(allCRSources[i])){
    allCRSources[i].showSource();
    if (confirm (“Unused Cross reference source text:”+””+allCRSources[i].sourceText.contents + “”+””+”Delete Cross reference?”)){
    allCRSources[i].remove();
    counter++;
    };
    if (!confirm (“Continue?”)){
    exit();
    }
    }
    }

    alert (“Deleted ” + counter + ” unused Cross reference sources”);

    function getHyperlinksUsedSources(){
    return app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.everyItem().source;
    }

    // — END —

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