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Delete an attribute from an element

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Hi Scripters, I know from Russ Ward's samples how to delete an attribute value. But how do I delete the attribute itself from the element? The attribute is undefined in the document's EDD, that is, it shows as red in the structure view. FrameScript has a command for deleting an "undefined" attribute from an element, but I don't see a way to do this in ExtendScript. Any help will be appreciated. -Rick

I see that the FDK has an F_ApiDeleteUndefinedAttribute() function, but I don't see an equivalent in ExtendScript.

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ASJonnyBe

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I have reported a documentation bug as the doc.DeleteUndefinedAttribute has a Syntax heading but no detail in the scripting guide for 2015.

Feature#4173763 - Extendscript Doc object DeleteUndefinedAttribute has no detail in the Adobe FrameMaker Scripting Guide

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Russ Ward

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Yes, just to clarify, I did not find this in the manual. The ESTK autocomplete feature showed it as an available method.

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Russ Ward

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Hi Rick,

Apologies for the delay in response... I was on vacation for a while. I do see an equivalent ES method and it works OK for me, for example:

doc.DeleteUndefinedAttribute ("UndefinedAttrName", Constants.FV_Element, elem);

...where elem is the element object. Did you try this?

Russ

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flaviod52212225

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This is not working for me. More important, there is no warning or error report that says I'm doing this wrong.

I really appreciate if you could provide some guideline. Thanks!

I'm using FM 2017 Version: 14.0.0.361

Both FA_errno and the return value are zero after the function call.The code is pretty simple:

#target framemaker

var flow, root;
doc = app.ActiveDoc;
flow = doc.MainFlowInDoc;
root = flow.HighestLevelElement;
$.writeln("root="+ root.ElementDef.Name + " Attrs#=" + (root.ElementDef.GetAttributeDefs()).length);
doc.DeleteUndefinedAttribute("UndefinedAttrName", Constants.FV_Element, root);

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Russ Ward

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Hi depaul, you need to put the actual attribute name in the method. For example:

doc.DeleteUndefinedAttribute("Id", Constants.FV_Element, root);

I just tested it and it works fine for me on FM2019.

Russ

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