Change bullet style to paragraph style.

Hi Flavio,

I gave some hints and a possible algorithm.

That algorithm should be refined. Without seeing into your actual InDesign documents this could be quite a lot of guesswork. An all-purpose bullet proof algorithm would mean spending hours of hours on the project. Writing code and testing. 10% for writing code, 90% for testing.

One cannot expect that of a forum answer, I think.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Flavio,

You could reach the applied character style for the bullet through:

myParaStyle.bulletsCharacterStyle

Where myParaStyle is a variable that holds the actual paragraph style that is applied to the bullet text.

If you want to change the fill color of the character style of the bullet access it through:

myParaStyle.bulletsCharacterStyle.fillColor

Note: You have to be prepared for several cases.

1. Does the color you want to assign exists in the document?

If not, first add it to the document.

2. Is the applied paragraph style for bullet text the same in all documents of the book?

If not, is it the only paragraph style with bullets in the document? Yes? Then you could identify it by looping the allParagraphStyles array. Check if the value for property bulletsAndNumberingListType is ListType.BULLET_LIST.

3. Is the value of myParaStyle.bulletsCharacterStyle the [None] character style?

Check for: app.documents[0].characterStyles[0].

Then you have to assign a character style first. If an appropriate style with the desired color does not exist, you have to create one and apply it to that property. Use the desired color in the style you create.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Maybe I didn't understand good your issue.

However if you want to change the character style to apply another color you don't need to do it with a script.

Go to character style panel and change the settings you want in character style "04_MARCADOR PRIMARIO" because this character style has applied in your paragraph style "15_MARCADOR PRINCIPAL".

Or you can choose in the paragraph settings of the style "15_MARCADOR PRINCIPAL" one other character style that already exists, as in your video