How to find hyperlinks with destinations to other files

Question

Hello ScriptmakersI want to find Hyperlinks in a document with destinations to another InDesin-File.I want to find this Hyperlinks by a JavaScript,I have tried this
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
    main();
}

function main()
{
  var doc = app.activeDocument;
  var anchors = doc.hyperlinks;
   
  //for (var n = 0; n < anchors.length; n++)
  //{   
    anchors[0].showSource();  // This works fine.
    anchors[0].showDestination(); // This goes to the right page but in the wrong file.
 
  // The following works, but this is not what I need.
    alert(anchors[0].destination.name);      
    alert(anchors[0].destination.destinationText.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.name);
    alert(anchors[0].destination.constructor.name);

//}

}

I am missing something like this:
...destination.parentFile.name
Who can help?Thanks fromInDesignerix

Laubender · Accepted Answer

Hi together,I would look for destination.parent .Be the destination could be a:ParagraphDestinationHyperlinkURLDestinationHyperlinkTextDestinationHyperlinkPageDestinationHyperlinkExternalPageDestinationand the parent is always a document object.Then you have to sort out, if it's your active document or not.Look up document.fullName in the DOM documentation and Hyperlink.destination in the DOM documentation.To compare I'd use File(Hyperlink.destination.parent.fullName).fullName and doing a string comparison, because document.fullName is a File object and I don't think you can compare a File object to another File object directly. Maybe I would also check if the File.isValid. Could well be, that it is missing.Sorry, no time to write and test some code for this right now.Some links to the DOM documentation:Adobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: FileAdobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: DocumentAdobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: HyperlinkAdobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: ParagraphDestinationUwe

Kasyan Servetsky · Answer

Here is a zip-file with a couple of test files (CC 2015).

Hyperlinks Test-1.indd has two hyperlinks: one points to the active document, another to Hyperlinks Test-2.indd

Run this script against the Hyperlinks Test-1.indd

Main();

function Main() {
    var hyperlink, destination,
    doc = app.activeDocument,    
    hyperlinks = doc.hyperlinks;

    for (var i = 0; i < hyperlinks.length; i++) {
        hyperlink = hyperlinks;

        destination = hyperlink.destination;
        
        if (destination.parent.name == doc.name) {
            $.writeln(hyperlink.name + " is in the active document.");
        }
        else {
            $.writeln(hyperlink.name + " is in another document: " + destination.parent.name);
        }
    }
}

The result will be written to console like so:

Hyperlink-2 is in another document: Hyperlinks Test-2.indd

Hyperlink-1 is in the active document.

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