Adding Cross reference for foundText

Question

Hi Everyone,

I need a help with this. I am trying to add crossReference to the text selection on the page, script will find the selected entries inside the text and will add PageNumber CrossReference. But it doesn't iterates the last entry.

Throws 'Object is invalid.' error. Can't find what is wrong with this. Please check and help me find what's wrong with this. Please refer the screenshots attached.

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

var xRefForm = myDoc.crossReferenceFormats.item ('Page Number');

var tocEntriesPstyles = []

var CrossSource;

var CrossRefDest;

var tocEntries = app.selection[0].paragraphs;

for (var l = 0; l < tocEntries.length; l++) {

var eachentry = String(tocEntries[l].contents)

eachentry = eachentry.replace(/\t000\r/g, "")

CrossSource = myDoc.crossReferenceSources.add (tocEntries[l].paragraphs[0].insertionPoints[-2], xRefForm);

app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item("ah")

app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = eachentry;

var myFoundItems = myDoc.findText();

if (myFoundItems.length > 0) {

CrossRefDest = myDoc.hyperlinkTextDestinations.add (myFoundItems[0], {name: myFoundItems[0].contents});

myDoc.hyperlinks.add (CrossSource, CrossRefDest);

}

Thanks,

Sathish

m1b · Accepted Answer

Hi @SathishSekar_, I haven't tested your script, but somtimes it helps to reverse the direction of your loop, starting at the last and going backwards to the first. This will solve problems where a DOM reference becomes invalid by the actions inside the loop.

Please try replacing this line:

for (var l = 0; l < tocEntries.length; l++) {

with:

for (var l = tocEntries.length -1; l >= 0 ; l--) {

Let us know if it helps. If not, is it possible to share a small demo .indd file?

- Mark

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