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sumit_bhingardive
sumit_bhingardive
Participant
January 23, 2017
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"Invalid object for this request" error while placing a image in table cell.

  • January 23, 2017
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I am having a problem while placing a image inside table cell, in case there is a overflow in the table. The cell in which i am placing the image is not visible in InDesign because the frame containing the table is smaller in size.

var oTable = oTextFrame.parentStory.tables[0]; 
var cells = oTable.cells;
for (var iCell = 0; iCell < cells.length; iCell++) { 
var oCell = cells[iCell];
oCell.convertCellType(CellTypeEnum.GRAPHIC_TYPE_CELL);
oCell.rectangles[0].place("D:/Test.jpg");// Here i am getting error "Invalid object for this request".
}

I have also checked "isValid" for the rectangle.

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sumit_bhingardive
sumit_bhingardiveAuthor
Participant
January 24, 2017

Yes you are right that if I will expand my table (container frame) my code will work. My use case was to place the images without expanding the container frame.

That means it is not possible to place a image on the cell without expanding the container frame.

About xml tag it was just some thing else I was trying on the table. It is not related to my scenario. Thanks.

L
Community Expert
LaubenderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 24, 2017

sumit.bhingardive wrote:

…

My use case was to place the images without expanding the container frame.

That means it is not possible to place a image on the cell without expanding the container frame.

…

Hi Sumit,

I did not test this, but I think it is possible to:

1. Place the image in a table cell where you know it is visible.

2. Select the cell by the select() method

3. Copy the cell with app.copy()

4. Select a cell in the overflow part of the table

5. Paste the clipboard contents

Though I did not test this with cells with cellType CellTypeEnum.GRAPHIC_TYPE_CELL …

But I can remember that one is able to select CellTypeEnum.TEXT_TYPE_CELL cells in overflow and paste in contents from the clipboard. If this is working there is no need to expand the text frame or to add text frames for showing all rows of the table.

Regards,

Uwe

Loic.Aigon
Loic.Aigon
Legend
January 24, 2017

Well obviously you have answered to your own question. A simple test shows that indeed, if any of the cell is hidden, the graphic inclusion won't work (throwing your error).

So it's not your code as it which is faulty, just the indesign inner code.

Your problem here is to expand the table so a cell isn't hidden and can be filled with a graphic.

And FWIW, I noticed your table is xml tagged, so I wanted to autotag the table (with graphics) to see what the xml structure looks like (in order to maybe use xml import as trick) but when I clicked on autotag, it just…crashed. So I guess this feature has not to be used in a xml workflow.

sumit_bhingardive
sumit_bhingardiveAuthor
Participant
January 24, 2017

Hi Loic.Aigon.

Yes the file exists and it is not corrupted. Before executing the code table looks as below:

After that i have reduced the container frame size to smaller. Such that only one row is visible.

Now I have executed my code to place images. After that the table look like below.

After expanding the container frame table looks as below:

As you can see in the above image (Image-3) for first row images are getting generated properly. There are four rows in my table, three more rows are present in table exactly identical to first row, but they are not visible because of container frame over flow. Using my code i am trying to place image for all cells but for other three rows image is not getting placed instead throwing error.

Loic.Aigon
Loic.Aigon
Legend
January 23, 2017

Your code works fine. Does the file  "D:/Test.jpg" exists ?

Isn't the jpg- file corrupted ?

What if you want to place it manually ?

Maybe force type to File:

var f = File ( "D:/Test.jpg" );

$.writeln ( "not valid" );

oCell.rectangles[0].place( f )

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