Script issue: Find/Change not recognizing a character style for bulled lists

Question

Hi everyone,I'm trying to figure out why my Find/Change is not recognizing a character style ("Bullets") when I run the script below. Should I change anything on line 7?Thanks for checking!Rogerio

rob day · Accepted Answer

This works—not sure if it will create other problems in a larger script:

var dcs = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.itemByName("Bullets")
var acs = makeCharStyle("Bullets");
acs.properties = dcs.properties;


app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = app.findChangeTextOptions = null;
app.findTextPreferences.bulletsAndNumberingListType = ListType.BULLET_LIST;
app.changeTextPreferences.bulletsAndNumberingListType = ListType.BULLET_LIST;
app.changeTextPreferences.bulletsCharacterStyle = acs
acs.remove()


function makeCharStyle(n){
    if (app.characterStyles.itemByName(n).isValid) {
        return app.characterStyles.itemByName(n);
    } else {
        return app.characterStyles.add({name:n});
    }
}

rob day · Answer

Hi @Rogerio5C09 , I think the problem is app.changeTextPreferences.bulletsCharacterStyle is looking for an application (not a document) character style. So if I create a new document with a paragraph style that is referencing a document character style named "Bullets", and run this, I get false for the app characterStyle and true for the activeDocument character style:

var acs = app.characterStyles.itemByName("Bullets")
$.writeln(acs.isValid) //returns false
var dcs = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.itemByName("Bullets")
$.writeln(dcs.isValid) //returns true

If I reference either the acs or dcs variable rather than a name string with your script I get an error:

If I create an application level character style (all documents closed) named Bullets, then create the document I don’t get an error and the script works:

Not sure what the solution is—you might have to temporarily create an application level character style named bullets with the same properties?

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded