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tann90111232
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October 3, 2017
Answered

Relink missing links with script

  • October 3, 2017
  • 4 replies
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HI everyone, does anyone have a script that can: choose missing links from the active document and relink them to the folder that we also put its path into the script, so that i only need press 1 button to do it?

Correct answer Kasyan Servetsky

Thank you so much Kasyan. I make over 100 documents per day and about 100 photos in each document need to be relinked to only 1 folder. Yes the feature "Relink to folder" is the way I am doing. But in each document, some photos are already relinked and some are not. I just want to speed up workflow by only "pressing a button" and the scipt will: choose missing links in the document I am working on, and relink them to the folder I want (and i want to pass through the dialog box "choosing folder" because I have only 1 folder)

And i am apreciated about the script above but sadly it didnt work .


Here I wrote a quick & dirty script for you.

Change the path variable in line 9 to whatever the path you want.

Select an image with black or white arrow and run the script.

var scriptName = "Relink selected link to folder",
doc;
PreCheck();
//===================================== FUNCTIONS ======================================
function Main(image) {
    var file,
    path = "/E/Archive/My folder/", // type the path to your folder here
    link = image.itemLink;
    
    if (link.status == LinkStatus.LINK_MISSING) {
        file = new File(path + link.name);
        
        if (file.exists) {
            link.relink(file);
        }
    }
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function PreCheck() {
    var image;
    if (app.documents.length == 0) ErrorExit("Please open a document and try again.", true);
    doc = app.activeDocument;
    if (doc.converted) ErrorExit("The current document has been modified by being converted from older version of InDesign. Please save the document and try again.", true);
    if (!doc.saved) ErrorExit("The current document has not been saved since it was created. Please save the document and try again.", true);
    if (app.selection.length == 0) ErrorExit("Nothing is selected.", true);
    
    if (app.selection[0].constructor.name == "Image") {
        image = app.selection[0];
    }
    else if (app.selection[0].images.length == 1) {
        image = app.selection[0].images[0];
    }
    else {
        ErrorExit("There's no image in selection.", true);
    }
    Main(image);
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function ErrorExit(error, icon) {
    alert(error, scriptName, icon);
    exit();
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

4 replies

L
Community Expert
LaubenderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 14, 2020

Hi abdullah,

as far as I can see from your screenshot you run the script in PhotoShop.

Kasyan's script is for InDesign documents.

 

Best,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

infomamun
infomamun
Inspiring
December 11, 2020

Why nothing is selected is showing while I have selected one image there?

Kasyan Servetsky
Kasyan Servetsky
Legend
October 4, 2017

Why don't you want to use the Relink to Folder feature?

Anantha Prabu G
Anantha Prabu G
Legend
October 3, 2017

Hi,

Hope this helps!!

Get the missing links from server

Re: need to relink missing links to files with extensions

Thanks,

Prabu G

Design smarter, faster, and bolder with InDesign scripting.
    tann90111232
    tann90111232Author
    Participant
    October 4, 2017

    Thank Prabu G, its nearly exactly what I am looking for. But one more thing, it is possible to put the path of the folder into the script, so I dont need to choose the folder anymore.

    Kasyan Servetsky
    Kasyan Servetsky
    Legend
    October 4, 2017

    But one more thing, it is possible to put the path of the folder into the script, so I dont need to choose the folder anymore.

    I didn't look carefully into the script, but I'd made the following adjustments:

    Note: the script processes all open documents and looks for the images starting from the 'root' folder and down there.

    Below is my (quick & dirty) modified (totally untested) version:

    var i, j, searchfolder;  
    for (j=0; j<app.documents.length; j++) {  
        doc = app.documents;  
      
        imgs = doc.links;  
        path = "/E/Archive";  // type here the path for the folder to start
        searchfolder = new Folder(path);  
        for (i=0; i<imgs.length; i++)  
        {  
            // Missing?  
        $.writeln("Image "+i);  
            if (imgs.status == LinkStatus.LINK_MISSING)  
            {  
            $.writeln("Missing: "+imgs.name+" lookign in "+searchfolder);  
                // Do we have a file?  
                imglist = findAnyFileDownThere(imgs.name, searchfolder);  
            $.writeln("Found "+imglist.length+" possible replacements.");  
                if (imglist.length == 1)  
                {  
                    // Oh yeah  
                    imgs.relink(imglist[0]);  
            $.writeln("Relinked to "+imglist[0]);  
                }  
            }  
        }  
    }  
    function findAnyFileDownThere (filename, path)  
    {  
    var result, folderList, fl;  
    result = Folder(path).getFiles (filename+".*");  
    if (result.length > 0)  
      return result;  
    folderList = Folder(path).getFiles(function(item) { return item instanceof Folder && !item.hidden; });  
      
    for (fl=0; fl<folderList.length; fl++)  
    {  
            $.writeln("Looking in: "+path+"/"+folderList[fl].name);  
      result = findAnyFileDownThere (filename, path+"/"+folderList[fl].name);  
      if (result.length > 0)  
       return result;  
    }  
    return [];  
    } 
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