select paragraph style from dropdown and dealing with targeting styles in folder

Justin,

When thinking about having ID search for a Pstyle in a style group, you should also consider what if it is in a style group within a style group, or nested even further? Here is a function that calls another function that takes care of this. I didn’t write this…I got it from another scripter (probably the very-smart Kris Coppieters years ago). But have used it in many, many scripts and it works great.

// Here is an example of how to call the function
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.itemByID(locateParagraphStyle(“Table body, cond, center”));

// Function to find a paragraph style possibly contained inside a style group. Return id of the paragraph style.
function locateParagraphStyle(styleNameToLocate, pathSeparator) {
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var rootPath = “”;
if (pathSeparator !== undefined) {
rootPath = pathSeparator;
}
var retVal = locateParagraphStyleRecursive(myDoc, styleNameToLocate, pathSeparator, rootPath);
if (! retVal) {
return “not found”;
}
return retVal.id;
}
// Function to find paragraph styles that are in style groups. Returns the paragraph style or null if not found.
function locateParagraphStyleRecursive(paragraphStyleContainer, styleNameToLocate, pathSeparator, parentPath) {
var retVal = null;
do {
try {
var paragraphStyles = paragraphStyleContainer.paragraphStyles;
var numParagraphStyles = paragraphStyles.length;
for (
var paragraphStyleIdx = 0;
retVal == null && paragraphStyleIdx < numParagraphStyles; paragraphStyleIdx++) { var paragraphStyle = paragraphStyles.item(paragraphStyleIdx); if (paragraphStyle.isValid) { var paragraphStyleName = paragraphStyle.name; if (pathSeparator) { paragraphStyleName = parentPath + paragraphStyleName; } if (paragraphStyleName == styleNameToLocate) { retVal = paragraphStyle; } } } if (retVal) { break; } var paragraphStyleGroups = paragraphStyleContainer.paragraphStyleGroups; var numParagraphStyleGroups = paragraphStyleGroups.length; for ( var paragraphStyleGroupIdx = 0; retVal == null && paragraphStyleGroupIdx < numParagraphStyleGroups; paragraphStyleGroupIdx++) { var paragraphStyleGroup = paragraphStyleGroups.item(paragraphStyleGroupIdx); if (paragraphStyleGroup.isValid) { var path = parentPath; if (pathSeparator) { var paragraphStyleGroupName = paragraphStyleGroup.name; path += paragraphStyleGroupName + pathSeparator; } retVal = locateParagraphStyleRecursive(paragraphStyleGroup, styleNameToLocate, pathSeparator, path); } } } catch (err) { } } while (false); return retVal; }

As far as allowing a user to choose a paragraph style, the talented Harbs made this function available on the Adobe Scripting forum years ago. I’ve used this as well and it works great.

function myInput (myDoc) {
// Thanks to Harbs for the pstyle listview code! https://forums.adobe.com/thread/445911
var HarbsUI = {}
HarbsUI.TreeView = function(parent,structure,name,nodeIcon,bounds){
if(bounds instanceof Array){
var width = bounds[0] || undefined;
var height = bounds[1] || undefined;
}
// Create the panel for the TreeView
var panel = parent.add(“panel”, undefined, name);
panel.alignment = [“fill”, “fill”];
panel.alignChildren = [“fill”, “fill”]
// Create the TreeView list
var treeview = panel.add(“treeview”);
if(width){treeview.preferredSize.width = width;}
if(height){treeview.preferredSize.height = height;}
AddItemsToTreeView(treeview,structure,nodeIcon);
return treeview;
function AddItemsToTreeView(parent,structure,icon){
for(var i=0;ihttps://forums.adobe.com/thread/445911
function GetStylesWithGroups(doc,groupType,styleType,parent,dontSkipFirst) {
var retVal=[];
var styles = parent[styleType];
for(var i=0;i