In the C++ SDK you can call QueryCellOverrides which returns all the overrides in one nice simple call. You would have thought it would have been exposed to the scripting world, its been there since the beggining of time.

Peter Kahrel

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_.isEqual() is UXP-only. It works on JavaScript objects such as strings, arrays, and JSON objects, but not on most InDesign objects. For instance, cells have a name, and no two cells have the same name, and therefore _isEqual() always returns false when you compare two cells.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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But the link I've provided says, that it will return list of differences? Not just true / false?

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

I didn't see that when I tried. But the point is that the function can't be used for cells because cells will always be flagged as different. The OP wants to know whether any cells differ (from the aplied style), not how they differ.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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I'm not JS guy at all so maybe I'm barking the wrong tree, but this in Google:

"js find differences between two objects"

returns articles about:

Lodash _.isEqual() Method

https://javascript.plainenglish.io/how-to-get-the-difference-between-two-javascript-objects-e885e09382cb

[...] Calling this with two objects will return an array of the names of keys on the objects whose values are not equal, and also includes the names of keys that do not exist on both objects [...]

Or it won't work in the JS version that is used in the InDesign?

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Or JSON.stringify() route...

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

This came up earlier this year, and someone had a very clever solution. Unfortunately I can't find that thread now.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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In JS it should be pretty easy - get list of all properties of both objects and compare - JS offers a quick and easy way to do this - but I'm not JS guy...