Generate a list of user variables

Hi,

In the past I had this issue as well. Very annoying. And there are not only user variables, but also cross-reference formats, autonumbering, names of doc types, text on master pages. Additionally your table formats store the paragraphs of the header and the first body row and the table title, and these formats have the source language. The table title might still have Figure as autonumber instead of Abbildung.

Therefore I had written a FrameScript script which looks all this info up in a special FrameMaker file and adjusts all variables and formats.

One of the best scripts which I have!

Now I am rewriting it with ExtendScript.

I can only recommend to develop something similar with your data.

Best regards, Winfried

Here is a script that writes the name and definition of each user variable to the Console window. The list is comma-delimited so you can copy/paste it into a file and open it with Excel. Note that if you have budget, we could fancy this up so it writes to a text file or gives you a nicer interface, etc.

#target framemaker

main ();

function main () {

    var doc;
    
    doc = app.ActiveDoc;
    if (doc.ObjectValid () === 1) {
        processDoc (doc);
    }
}

function processDoc (doc) {

    var varFmt;
    
    varFmt = doc.FirstVarFmtInDoc;
    while (varFmt.ObjectValid () === 1) {
        // See if this is a user variable.
        if (varFmt.SystemVar === Constants.FV_VAR_USER_VARIABLE) {
            Console (varFmt.Name + ',"' + varFmt.Fmt + '"');
        }
        varFmt = varFmt.NextVarFmtInDoc;    
    }
}