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July 24, 2023
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Has anybody had any experience developing extendscripts for FrameMaker using chatgpt (or similar AI)

  • July 24, 2023
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I have read that one can use AI for generating code, but I have next to none experience with coding. I am merely curious as whether anybody has tried this with FrameMaker?

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    frameexpert
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    July 24, 2023

    I have used ChatGPT for generating XSLT code, but not ExtendScript.

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      July 24, 2023

      There was a short discussion some time ago about generating a list of variables, so fiddled around with a prompt for that in ChatGPT. Doesn't seem to work though. And since I have no idea what I am doing, I can't trouble shoot it either. This is what it looks like:

       

      var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
      var variables = doc.GetVarFmtNames();
      var varList = "";

      for (var i = 0; i < variables.length; i++) {
      varList += variables[i] + ": " + doc.GetNamedVarFmt(variables[i]).Contents + "\n";
      }

      alert(varList);

      Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk
      frameexpert
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      July 24, 2023

      When it comes to FrameMaker ExtendScript, AI is dumb. Here is a smart solution:

      #target framemaker

var varFmtList, doc, varFmt;

varFmtList = [];

doc = app.ActiveDoc;

varFmt = doc.FirstVarFmtInDoc;
while (varFmt.ObjectValid () === 1) {
    varFmtList.push (varFmt.Name + ": " + varFmt.Fmt);
    varFmt = varFmt.NextVarFmtInDoc;
}

alert (varFmtList.join ("\r"));
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