preflight result need to extract page numbers for overset text result

@@riteshg

What is your end goal? 

Why not just iterate through Stories collection and check overset property?

And of course Cells in Tables. 

I know what you mean @@riteshg! The aggregatedResults is a gnarly mess: an ordered array of ordered arrays, with each element a specific thing. (It should be it's own Object, with sensible keys, but... oh well) I've never worked with it before, but as far as I can tell, here is a basic approach that works fine in my test document. Let me know if it works for you.

- Mark

/**
 * @file List pages with overset text.js
 * @author m1b
 * @discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/preflight-result-need-to-extract-page-numbers-for-overset-text-result/m-p/14781671
 */
function main() {

    if (0 === app.preflightProcesses.length)
        alert('No preflight processes active. Please try again later.');

    // store the overset page names in an object
    var oversets = {},
        hasOversetText = /Problem: Overset text/,
        extension = /\.[^\.]+$/;

    for (var i = 0, pf, docName, problems; i < app.preflightProcesses.length; i++) {

        pf = app.preflightProcesses[i];

        // use the doc name, without extension, as key
        docName = pf.aggregatedResults[0].replace(extension, '');

        // make an array in oversets for this document
        oversets[docName] = [];

        // collect the overset warnings for this document
        problems = pf.aggregatedResults[2];
        for (var j = 0; j < problems.length; j++)
            if (hasOversetText.test(problems[j][3]))
                // store the page name for this overset error
                oversets[docName].push(problems[j][2])

    }

    // show results
    var message = '',
        counter = 0;

    for (var key in oversets) {
        if (
            oversets.hasOwnProperty(key)
            && oversets[key].length > 0
        ) {
            message += 'Document: "' + key + '"\n  Pages ' + oversets[key] + '.\n\n';
            counter += oversets[key].length;
        }
    }

    if (0 === counter)
        alert('There are no active overset warnings.');

    else
        alert('There are ' + counter + ' active overset warnings\n' + message);

};
app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'List pages with overset text');

EDIT 2024-08-06: updated script to handle multiple preflight processes (eg. when multiple documents are open).