Action calling a script ignores selection[0] calls

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October 7, 2022
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This script works if I call it via menu file/scripts/scriptname, but when I assign an action to run it, the action ignores the selection[0] calls. I'm trying to get this script to run with a function key.

if ( app.documents.length > 0) {
    doc = app.activeDocument;

selection[0].embed()
app.executeMenuCommand ("releaseMask")
app.executeMenuCommand ("ungroup")
selection[0].remove();
}

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Correct answer Sergey Osokin

Here is video of adding script to action. Thanks guys for helping on this!

You are using the wrong way to add the script to the action. Add scripts via "Insert menu item".

Sergey Osokin

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Tell us more about it. What happens on the screen, does an error show up? What version of Adobe Illustrator, Mac OS, Windows? Could you show us an example file? I added your script to a new Action and ran it on the linked EPS. The script executed. Illustrator CC 2019/2022, Mac OS.

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gstewartjrAuthor

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That's the whole script 🙂 . I run on windows 11 with cc, so should be latest. When I add the script to action, I can see the two executeMenu commands show up as individual action items, but the embed, and remove do not. So when I run it, I get the error clippin mask unavailable, but if I embed it manually first, does not error, but also does not remove the clipping area. It seems when action added it, it stripped out the embed and remove. One thing I'm trying is to loop through the selected items ( I have 3 linked image items selected), then running the script on those, but haven't had luck with that yet. I can try running on mac also. I'll upload some files tomorrow. Thanks for taking a look.

Sergey Osokin

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Show a screenshot of your Action panel. Or you can record a video of you adding an action and calling it. I don't quite understand how you can see the individual script commands in the Action panel? Only the script file is added there.