Script to toggle "Hide New Layers When Updating or Relinking" Preference

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August 21, 2024
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Hello erveryone,

this might be asked before but I wasn't able to find anything helpful yet.

Does anyone know if there is a way to toggle "Hide New Layers When Updating or Relinking" in the InDesign Preferences under File Handling on or off via script. This should be some kind of Application Preference but I wasn't able to find it yet.

C.

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Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

There's an object linkingPreferences, which has two properties:

LinkingPreference.findMissingLinksAtOpen
LinkingPreference.checkLinksAtOpen

You'd expect 'Hide New Layers When Updating or Relinking' here since it's in the same panel in the interface, but it's not. Looks as if you're out of luck as far as I can see.

Though finding preference properties in the object model can be tough because naming and placement sometimes defy logic.

carstenm23472936Author

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First of all many thanks for your reply, Peter!

To be honest I didn't expect to find the property under linkingPreferences though it was one of my first guesses.

What I found and what sounded promissing, at least to me, was this:

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#UpdateLinkOptions.html

My guess was to set UpdateLinkOptions somehow to KEEP_OVERRIDES could be a solution, but I am (still) fairly unexpierenced in scripting and I have to confess that my guess might be a quite stupid one.

Although I don't want to waste anyones time, would it be possible to explain shortly how I could use UpdateLinkOptions in some kind of manner that makes sense. Maybe that gives me room to develop another solution.

C.

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

UpdateLinkOptions is a property of graphicLayer, which applies only to PSD and PDF files. So I don't think that that's relevant for you. And since it's a checkbox in the interface you'd expect the property to be a boolean, no an enumerated object.

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