Link update in InDesign CS4 JS

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October 13, 2009
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Hi, I need some help. This loop use to work, but know it's giving me an error, and when I added the alert I see that it's giving me only first letter of the file's name. Could you help me to find out what happened.

for (var a =0; a<app.activeDocument.rectangles.length-1; a++){

myArt = app.activeDocument.rectangles.graphics[0];
myArtName = myArt.itemLink.name[0];
alert (myArtName);
myArt.itemLink.update (myArtName);
}

Thank you very much.

Yulia

Scripting

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ramkumar_vp

Inspiring

Hi Yulia,

Wrong: myArtName = myArt.itemLink.name[0];

Correct : myArtName = myArt.itemLink.name;

itemLink.name is a string, if you get the String[0] it returns the first character.

I think now you got it.

Regards,

Ramkumar

Y

YuliaartAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you, Ramkumar.

That helped. Now I am stuck on the next thing. It updates the broken link, but gives me an error when link is good. So I am trying to figure out an IF statement, so it only updates broken links. Here what I've tried and none of it works:

for (var a =0; a<app.activeDocument.rectangles.length-1; a++){

myArt = app.activeDocument.rectangles.graphics[0];
myArtName = myArt.itemLink.name;
var myLink = myArt.itemLink;

if (myLink.edited = true)

myArt.itemLink.update (myArtName)
}

or

for (var a =0; a<app.activeDocument.rectangles.length-1; a++){

myArt = app.activeDocument.rectangles.graphics[0];
myArtName = myArt.itemLink.name;

if (myArt.itemLink.edited = true)
myArt.itemLink.update (myArtName);
}

or

for (var a =0; a<app.activeDocument.rectangles.length-1; a++){

myArt = app.activeDocument.rectangles.graphics[0];
myArtName = myArt.itemLink.name;

if (myArt.itemLink.linkStatus = LINK_OUT_OF_DATE)
myArt.itemLink.update (myArtName);
}