Browse all preview from data merge in script

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September 27, 2023
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Hello,

How can we browse in JavaScript all the data merge previews?

I can't find any help on the internet, please help me.

Thank you for your help.

Scripting

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brian_p_dts

Community Expert

That functionality is not exposed in scripting. What exactly are you hoping to accomplish by doing so?

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Marketing_LauraAuthor

Participant

After merging the data, I want to be able to set conditions on the preview. In other words, for each preview, I want to be able to delete fields if certain fields are set to 0. I can do this on the doc.activeDocument, but I need to apply my script to each preview and not to the active document.

Example:
preview 1
test: 12
test2 : 0
in this preview, I want the test2 field to be deleted

preview 2
test : 0
test2 : 498499
I want the test field to be deleted in this preview

So I want a code that applies to each preview separately.

Currently, if I run my script in preview 1, it will delete test2 (correct operation) but then in preview2, test2 will also be deleted (operation I don't want).

brian_p_dts

Community Expert

You would need to write the logic to operate on a completely merged document. I usually do this by naming the variable fields in the layers panel and iterating through a merged document to operate on them.

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