How to Retrieve the Linked Object from a LinkedPageItem in InDesign

I dont understand what you're all talking about. Sorry.

You have Object-A. (for example: a group of a textframe and and Image)

You create Object-B as a link of Object-A. So if you change Object-A's Textframe-text, Object-B will update.

Now, later on, you get hold of Object-B.

How do ypu get Object-A if you have Object-B? They're linkt, right…? This cant be that complicated..

Hi @Lordrhavin, If you are scripting, rather than SDKing, could you share the code that shows the issue?

I've done a fair bit of scripting Indesign and never used "linkedPageItemOptions" and I honestly don't know what it does. I did a google search and literally no script examples came up, which seems pretty strange. I wonder if you are using the wrong property? What are you trying to do? My guess is that linkedPageItemOptions aren't needed.

- Mark

As far as I understand, you can't get it from LinkedPageItemOption. Try to explore the link object properties?

@Lordrhavin 

The frames in a series of linked/chined frames are not parent of one another but rather Previous and Next frames relative to one another.

I'm not sure how this would translate to scripting, but using the SDK, finding the previous frame in a chain goes something like:

int32 mcfFirstFrameIndex = frameList->GetFrameIndex(mcf->GetUIDInFrameList(kFalse/*first*/));
if (mcfFirstFrameIndex == 0) {
// The given graphic frame contains the first frame in the frame list.
// There is no previous frame.
break;
}
// Determine the graphic frame that contains the previous kFrameItemBoss in the frame list.
InterfacePtr<ITextFrameColumn> previousTFC(frameList->QueryNthFrame(mcfFirstFrameIndex-1));
if (!previousTFC) {
break;
}
UIDRef previousGraphicFrameRef = this->GetGraphicFrameRef(previousTFC, kTrue/*isTOPFrameAllowed*/);
result = previousGraphicFrameRef;

Very best regards,

Olivier