Script to change URL in buttons?

Question

Hello,

I would like to know if it is possible to change the URLs of "buttons/forms" boxes inserted in a document. I have a document with many links. Over these links, I create many rectangles were created and the URLs of the links behind them were applied to these rectangles. I would like to know if I can change these button urls via script (just add the excerpt to the links, which may be different)?

The links are different from each other, but the root is the same. Example: "test . com/..." to "testnew . com/..."

Peter Kahrel · Accepted Answer

Buttons can have various parents. You'll have to collect the independent and embedded ones in separate commands and concatenate the arrays. To set each button's URL to its content you could use this script:

d = app.documents[0];

b = d.buttons.everyItem().getElements();
b = b.concat (d.stories.everyItem().buttons.everyItem().getElements());

for (i = 0; i < b.length; i++) {
  if (b[i].gotoURLBehaviors.length > 0) {
    b[i].gotoURLBehaviors[0].url = b[i].groups[0].textFrames[0].parentStory.contents;
  }
}

Eugene Tyson · Answer

How's it going ! Not sure if this is what you want exactly

It will find any URL with test and replace with testnew

// Get the active document
var doc = app.activeDocument;

// Function to update URLs
function updateURL(url) {
    return url.replace("test", "testnew");
}

// Update URLs in buttons
for (var i = 0; i < doc.buttons.length; i++) {
    var button = doc.buttons[i];
    for (var j = 0; j < button.gotoURLBehaviors.length; j++) {
        var behavior = button.gotoURLBehaviors[j];
        if (behavior.hasOwnProperty("url")) {
            behavior.url = updateURL(behavior.url);
        }
    }
}

// Update URLs in hyperlinks
for (var i = 0; i < doc.hyperlinks.length; i++) {
    var hyperlink = doc.hyperlinks[i];
    if (hyperlink.destination instanceof HyperlinkURLDestination) {
        var destination = hyperlink.destination;
        if (destination.hasOwnProperty("destinationURL")) {
            destination.destinationURL = updateURL(destination.destinationURL);
        }
    }
}

// Notify the user
alert("URLs in buttons and hyperlinks have been updated.");

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