How to make a script run automatically when you save a Framemaker document

Hi Jang

I never even imagined you would create a long script like this and never even save it

I've tested the first and second script just by copying it from here to ESTK just for testing. So I didn't save it.

So they MUST fail.

So this can happen ;-)

Hi Russ,

Thank you! I was able to use bits and pieces of other scripts I found, and then patch them together and modify them to make them do what I want. So I don't know if I technically "wrote" it, but I did it without asking for help ... until now.

When I added the notification script, I noticed that the script now shows up in my Registered Scripts in the script library. It does run when I save, but nothing else works correctly. I've tried a lot of things but nothing makes it work correctly. I think I only need the PostSaveDoc part, because I want the rest of the script to run after the save. Can you tell what I'm doing wrong?

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#target framemaker

/* This script will see if the Framemaker filename is the template file. If it is, it will see if the filename matches the text on the reference page. If it does not match, it will run the rest of the script to update the reference page text to match the filename.  */

    var PT = 65536;      // Make a constant for the points metric value.

    var doc = app.ActiveDoc;

    var name = doc.Name;

    var exitProg = false;

    var page =  doc.FirstRefPageInDoc;

// Notify () code to make the script auto run.

Notification(Constants.FA_Note_PostSaveDoc , true);

Notification(Constants.FA_Note_PreSaveDoc , true);

function Notify (note, object, sparam, iparam)

{

    switch (note)

    {

          case Constants.FA_Note_PostSaveDoc:

              correctFileA ();

            break;  

           case Constants.FA_Note_PreSaveDoc:

              correctFileA ();

            break; 

     }

}

// The script below works when the notification code is removed. (need to call the first function)

function correctFileA () {

    if (name.indexOf("iodp2template_") === -1){    //If the file name does NOT contain the string, the program ends. Otherwise, it continues.

        exitProg = true;

            alert ("This is not a template file");

       } else {

            main ();

    }

}

function main () { // This will only run the script if the file name and text in the frame are not the same.

    var textFrame = getTextFrame (page, "File_name");

    if (getSystemVariableValue ("Filename (Short)", doc) === getText (textFrame, doc)) {

            exitProg = true;

            alert ("Script stopped. File name is not changed");

     }  else {

        process ();

        alert ("file name changed");

    }

}

function process () {

    delFileNameFrame ();

    addFileName ();

    }

function delFileNameFrame () { // looks for an existing frame with a specific flow name and deletes it

    var page, textFrame;

    page =  doc.FirstRefPageInDoc;

    textFrame = getTextFrame (page, "File_name");

    // If the text frame is found, delete it.

    if (textFrame) {

        textFrame.Delete ();

    }

}   

function getTextFrame (page, flow) {   // This function looks for  a text frame.

        var graphic;

        graphic = page.PageFrame.FirstGraphicInFrame;

        while (graphic.ObjectValid () === 1) {

            if (graphic.constructor.name === "TextFrame") {

                if (graphic.Flow.Name === flow) {

                    return graphic;

                }

            }

            graphic = graphic.NextGraphicInFrame;

        }

}

function addFileName () {  //adds text box to Reference page and fills it with the desired text

    var newRefPage = doc.FirstRefPageInDoc;

    var addTextFrame = doc.NewTextFrame (newRefPage.PageFrame);

    var pgf = addTextFrame.FirstPgf;

    addTextFrame.Flow.Name = "File_name";

    var textLoc = new TextLoc (pgf, 0);

    addTextFrame.Width  = 288 * PT;

    doc.AddText (textLoc, getSystemVariableValue ("Filename (Short)", doc));

    var filename = "";

    return filename;

}

function getSystemVariableValue (varName, doc) {  //gets the variable

    var masterPage, textFrame, pgf, textLoc, varObj, value = "";

    // Get the first master page in the document.

    masterPage = doc.FirstMasterPageInDoc;

    // Add a temporary text frame to the master page.

    textFrame = doc.NewTextFrame (masterPage.PageFrame);

    textFrame.Width  = 288 * PT;

    // Add the variable to the first paragraph in the temporary text frame.

    pgf = textFrame.FirstPgf;

    textLoc = new TextLoc (pgf, 0);

    varObj = doc.NewAnchoredFormattedVar (varName, textLoc);

    if (varObj.ObjectValid () === 1) {

        // Get the value of the variable.

        value = getText (varObj.TextRange, doc);

    }

    // Delete the temporary text frame.

    textFrame.Delete ();

    return value;

}

function getText (textObj, doc) {      // Gets the text from the text object or text range.

    var text = "", textItems, i;

    // Get a list of the strings in the text object or text range.

    if (textObj.constructor.name !== "TextRange") {

        textItems = textObj.GetText(Constants.FTI_String);

    } else {

        textItems = doc.GetTextForRange(textObj, Constants.FTI_String);

    }

    // Concatenate the strings.

    for (i = 0; i < textItems.len; i += 1) {

        text += (textItems.sdata);

    }

    return text; // Return the text

}