How to Get All Frames Marked with a Given Tag

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September 6, 2010
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Is there an elegant way to get a Frame (or other page item) based on its associated tag name? For example, if I wanted to get a TextFrame, which had been associated with the tag "Tag1", is there anything like:

var myTextFrame = app.activeDocument.pages[0].getItemByTag("Tag1");

I realize I could iterate through every frame in allPageItems until I found the one whose associated tag's markup has the name of "Tag1", but that would be slow and ugly.

Any ideas?

TIA

mlavie

Scripting

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mlavieAuthor

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Thanks for the responses.

What are the exact advantages of getElements()? What do you mean by "static array"?

Also, you wrote that the new "name" (the upgrade from "label" property can be set from the Layers panel. I couldn't find how to do it - maybe I am as stupid as my ex claims...

TIA

mlavie