Hi all

Back from my break.

I figured out the 2 problem.

1) How to get the hyperlink sources from the destinations, i.e. you can't so do it the other way round like Pickory suggested.

2) How to search for the Destination symbol that can be seen on the story editor but doesn't have a hidden character symbol.

This cannot be done with the indesign GREPs as there is no symbol on the main screan (Peter correct me if I'm wrong) but can be found with a javascript regex

reg = /\ufeff/g;
q = mySelection.contents.search (reg);

All this does is find the symbol but which is just a symbol that contains no information, to find out to which destination it is associated one has to compare the story and insertion point coordinated of the symbol with the values given in the destinations.

To do this quickly I make a table (see script)

There is a problem with this is that the values or static which is ok for creating an index or something like that but if one changes the main text the story / insertion point of the symbol will change and the script won't find the destination associated with the symbol.  I this is a problem enjoy re-scripting it.

Regards,

Trevor.

P.s.

MAKE SURE THAT THE JAVASCRIPT CONSOLE IS OPEN OR YOU WILL NOT SEE THE SCRIPT DO ANYTHING!!!

// Hyperlink Destination Source Script byTrevor http://forums.adobe.com/message/4721797#4721797
// MAKE SURE THAT THE JAVASCRIPT CONSOLE IS OPEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
// SCROLL  UP THE CONSOLE UNTIL YOU SEE (:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)
var myDoc = app.documents[0],
myDestinations = myDoc.hyperlinkTextDestinations.everyItem().getElements(),
mySources = myDoc.hyperlinkTextSources.everyItem().getElements(),
myHyperLinks = myDoc.hyperlinks.everyItem().getElements(),
dl = dll = myDestinations.length,
hl = hll = myHyperLinks.length,
myDestinationsSearchTable = [],
myHypers = {}, hyps = [], dests = [], n,
mySelection = app.selection[0];
// Make an index of destionation sources from the hyperlinks that contain both sources and destinations
// This will miss any Destinations that don't have sources
$.writeln ("\r\r(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)\r(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)(:-)\r\rHyperlinks Sources from Destinations Script\r\rThese are my look up keys")
while (hll--) 
    {
        if (myHyperLinks[hll].destination != null)
        {
            if (hyps[myHyperLinks[hll].destination.index] == null) 
            {
                hyps[myHyperLinks[hll].destination.index] = {};
                hyps[myHyperLinks[hll].destination.index]["Destination"] = myHyperLinks[hll].destination;
                hyps[myHyperLinks[hll].destination.index]["Sources"] = [];
             }
            hyps[myHyperLinks[hll].destination.index]["Sources"].push(myHyperLinks[hll].source);
        }
     }
// make an array of all destinations with what every properties you want to extract i.e. name location sources page number etc.
// add or remove as prperties as needed "DestinationID" is used here for the search look up table
while (dl--)
    {
        dests[dl] = {};
        destIndex = myDestinations[dl].index;
        dests[dl]["DestinationID"] = myDestinations[dl].destinationText.parentStory.index+"x"+myDestinations[dl].destinationText.insertionPoints.lastItem ().index;
        myDestinationsSearchTable[dests[dl]["DestinationID"]]=dl; // makes a look up table to use for search
        $.writeln("myDestinationsSearchTable ["+dests[dl]["DestinationID"]+"] = "+dl);
        if (hyps[dl] != null)
        {
            dests[dl]["HasSource"] = 1;
            dests[dl]["DestinationName"] = hyps[destIndex]["Destination"].name;
            dests[dl]["DestinationIndex"] = destIndex;
            dests[dl]["DestinationInsertionPoint"] = hyps[destIndex]["Destination"].destinationText.insertionPoints;
            dests[dl]["DestinationCharater"] = hyps[destIndex]["Destination"].destinationText.insertionPoints.lastItem ().index;
            
            dests[dl]["DestinationStory"] = hyps[destIndex]["Destination"].destinationText.parentStory.index;
            dests[dl]["DestinationCharaterCode"] = myDoc.stories[dests[dl]["DestinationStory"]].characters[dests[dl]["DestinationCharater"]].contents.charCodeAt(0).toString(16);
            dests[dl]["DestinationPage"] = (hyps[destIndex]["Destination"].destinationText.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage != null) ?  hyps[destIndex]["Destination"].destinationText.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.name : "Off the Page";;
            dests[dl]["SourceNames"] = [];
            dests[dl]["SourceIndexs"] = [];
            dests[dl]["SourcePages"] = [];
            l = hyps[destIndex]["Sources"].length;
            dests[dl]["Destination"] = hyps[destIndex];
            while (l--) 
                {
                    dests[dl]["SourceNames"].push(hyps[destIndex]["Sources"].sourceText.contents);
                    dests[dl]["SourceIndexs"].push(hyps[destIndex]["Sources"].index);
                    (hyps[destIndex]["Sources"].sourceText.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage != null) ?
                    dests[dl]["SourcePages"].push(hyps[destIndex]["Sources"].sourceText.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.name) :
                    dests[dl]["SourcePages"].push("Off the page");
                  } 
              
        }
       else dests[dl]["HasSource"] = 0;
     }
 // if there's text selected search for destination anchors
if ( app.documents.length && app.selection.length && mySelection.hasOwnProperty ( 'baseline' ) && mySelection.constructor.name != "InsertionPoint")
    {
        var mySelectionDestinations = [],
        // this is the unicode for the destination symbol
        q=0,
        indexAdjust = mySelection.parentStory.texts.itemByRange (mySelection.parentStory.characters[0], mySelection.characters[0]).characters.length-1,
        myStory=mySelection.parentStory.index,
        reg = /\ufeff/g;
        $.writeln("*********** Destinations in Selection **********")
        while (q != -1) 
            {
                q = mySelection.contents.search (reg)
                if (q != -1) // when used in practise remove the if condition and pop array after loop
                    {
                        mySelectionDestinations.push(dests[myDestinationsSearchTable[myStory+"x"+(q+indexAdjust)]]);
                        $.writeln("mySelectionDestinations ["+(mySelectionDestinations.length-1)+"] = myDestinationsSearchTable ["+[myStory+"x"+(q+indexAdjust)]+"] = "+myDestinationsSearchTable[myStory+"x"+(q+indexAdjust)])
                    }
            }
        $.writeln ("################\rThese are these are the destinations in the selection: "+mySelectionDestinations+"\r")
        for (n in mySelectionDestinations) $.writeln (mySelectionDestinations.toSource()+"\r###########\r\r")
    }
   
       
$.writeln ("%%%%%%%%%%%%%%\rThese are all the document's hyperlinks that have destination\r");
for (n in hyps) $.writeln (n+"\t"+hyps.toSource()+"\r--------------------------");
$.writeln("++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\r\r"+
    "These are all the document's hyperlink destinations with source and other properties\r");    
for (n in dests) $.writeln (n+"\t"+dests.toSource()+"\r**********************");