Table footnotes

Question

Hello friends,Obiously table footnotes are not the same objects as footnotes (in text flows). They are not found with the script as described in my post message/5430068#5430068. They are also flows (I assume this from the § symbol at their end). How to access these table footnotes? I have found only properties for their format, for example TblFnNumStyle, TblFnCellPosition or TblFnSuffix).There is no such constant as FTI_tblfn….I welcome Your ideas.Klaus

frameexpert · Answer

Hi Klaus, There is no special table footnote object in FrameMaker. There are two ways to get to table footnotes:

1) Loop through all of the document's Fn objects.

var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
var fn = doc.FirstFnInDoc;
while (fn.ObjectValid()) {
  // ... Do something here.
  fn = fn.NextFnInDoc;
}

This is the simplest method, but the internal list may not be in document order.

2) Process the paragraphs in document order, and for each paragraph, get a list of footnote anchor objects. I don't have time to code this in ExtendScript, but here is how it looks with FrameScript:

Set oPgf = TextSelection.Begin.Object;
Get TextList InObject(oPgf) FnAnchor NewVar(tTextList);
Loop While(i <= tTextList.Count) LoopVar(i) Init(1) Incr(1)
  Set oFn = tTextList.TextData;
  // Do something with the footnote here.
EndLoop

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