Javascript command: "select content"

Thx all of you, I will try all methods (I am learning scripting).

As first I tried Laubender's and it solved my problem.

🙂

Hi zzero,

your method by selecting something would work if you do not work with the allGraphics array.

Just do it with the first item of the rectangle. Or, if you are sure the first item is indeed a group work with the first group of the rectangle named "logo".

app.select( app.activeDocument.pages.item(1).rectangles.itemByName ('logo').pageItems[0] );
app.copy()
app.pasteInPlace();

Or:

app.select( app.activeDocument.pages.item(1).rectangles.itemByName ('logo').groups[0] );
app.copy()
app.pasteInPlace();

Best practice is:

If you are working with select() define the spread you are working with as the active spread of the layout window.

In your case this could be done like that:

app.activeDocument.layoutWindows[0].activeSpread =
app.activeDocument.pages[1].parent;

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

It's tempting to write scripts as if you are recording literal keystrokes, and actually this can bring you quite far – but some time you'll have to let go, and learn to manipulate the world without touching it. In other words, "there is no spoon".

I don't know what could be wrong with your code but this is the spoon-less way to do it:

app.selection[0].groups[0].duplicate (app.selection[0].itemLayer);

 (with this, you have to select the spoon. But your method of selecting-by-name should also work.)

Noteworthy: InDesign complains when you use 'move' instead of 'duplicate'. It specifically says in the error message that you need to select "a single group" ... which is what I do! There must be some other restriction at work. "duplicate", targeting another layer, implicitly does a copy-then-paste-in-place, and so you can delete the original item immediately afterwards.