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kopaacabana
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July 1, 2019
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Adding Tags to document

  • July 1, 2019
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Hello,

I try to add tags to my active document but I receive an error message :

"Cannot apply a tag to a document"

Does anybody success to add tags to a document ?

Thanks

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Correct answer CarlosCanto

kopaacabana  wrote

Does anybody success to add tags to a document ?

Thanks

no, you can only add tags to objects. You might want to try using XMP to add metadata to the document instead.

from the Reference

Tag

A label associated with a specific piece of artwork. Tags allows you to assign an unlimited number of

key-value pairs to any page item in a document.

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Ten A
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Ten ACommunity Expert
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July 1, 2019

In this case, You can use XMP Meta Data as CarlosCanto say.

You can reference below.

Extend_Script_experimentals/XMPtool.jsx at master · ten-A/Extend_Script_experimentals · GitHub

    CarlosCanto
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    CarlosCantoCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    July 1, 2019

    kopaacabana  wrote

    Does anybody success to add tags to a document ?

    Thanks

    no, you can only add tags to objects. You might want to try using XMP to add metadata to the document instead.

    from the Reference

    Tag

    A label associated with a specific piece of artwork. Tags allows you to assign an unlimited number of

    key-value pairs to any page item in a document.

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    kopaacabanaAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 2, 2019

    Thanks for your response.

    When I visit this doc reference : Adobe Illustrator CS6 Type Library JS: Document, class Document have tags as propreties, so why can't we add/use tags on document, it's very strange !!!!

    CarlosCanto
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    CarlosCantoCommunity Expert
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    July 3, 2019

    yeah, it's a little confusing. The tags are added to objects, but they're also stored in the document. So if you have Object 1 with 1 tag and object 2 with 3 tags, in total the document will report having 4 tags. But tags are attached to objects not to the document itself.

    Lumenn
    Lumenn
    Inspiring
    July 1, 2019

    Hey, can you show us your code ?

    Here is some documentation for tags, maybe it will help.

    Tags — Illustrator Scripting Guide 0.0.1 documentation

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