Finding out the ObjectID of elements to create links in FM2019

And to constrain the the reply space, do you need these deep links to work only intra-document (same document), or do you need them to work inter-document (to separate documents)? The latter requirement exposes more challenges.

To link to a certain location, you can put a Hypertext marker at that location with a "newlink" named destination. Then you can create a link to that location using a Hypertext marker with "gotolink" or "openlink" syntax.

If you want to avoid the "newlink" destination marker, you can use the same syntax that is used by FrameMaker generated lists. For example, I just generated a list of title elements and here is an example entry:

openObjectId SPEC-18A.fm:5 3035275

After the filename and colon are two numbers; in this case, the 5 indicates that I am pointing to an element and the 7-digit number is the Unique property of the element. To build these kinds of links, you need to know the hidden Unique property of the element (or paragraph, or whatever you are pointing to). Here is a piece of ExtendScript code that you can use to identify the Unique property of the selected element:

#target framemaker

var doc, element;

doc = app.ActiveDoc;
element = doc.ElementSelection.beg.child;

alert (element.Unique);

Save this chunk of code in a plain text file, select your target element, and choose File > Script > Run to run the script. It will display the required target number for your marker.