how to build one array of TextFrames from indd spread consist of TextFrames being grouped and not being grouped ?

many thanks for answers Laubender and Vamitul. It helped me a lot :-)

Hi marcin,

for getting all text frames into one array you can use the textContainers property of the story object.

For example:

// Array that will hold the text frames:
var textFramesArray = [];

// The active document:
var doc = app.documents[0];
// All stories in the document:
var stories = doc.stories.everyItem().getElements();

// Loop through all the stories:
for(var n=0;n<stories.length;n++)
{
    // The textContainers could be text frames or text paths
    var textContainersArray = stories.textContainers;

    // Loop through the text containers:
    for(var c=0;c<textContainersArray.length;c++)
    {
        // Single out the text frames:
        if(textContainersArray.constructor.name == "TextFrame")
        {
            // Feed the array:
            textFramesArray[textFramesArray.length++] = textContainersArray;
        };

    };

};

If you also would like to add text paths to that array, you don't need the if statement; just feed the array how is shown in line 22.

For question #2 I have no answer…

Uwe