Ungroup selected items and delete them

Question

Hello!I have a code that removes the tags (if there are tags) from objects and then deletes them.The problem is if tagged objects are grouped. Or even grouped objects in another group.I need to ungroup the selected objects and then untagging and deleting them.How can i do this?My current code:for (var iSel = app.activeDocument.selection.length-1; iSel >=0 ; iSel--){     var currentSelection = app.selection[iSel];          if (currentSelection.associatedXMLElement != null) {               currentSelection.associatedXMLElement.untag();               currentSelection.remove();          }          else {               currentSelection.remove();          }}

Laubender · Accepted Answer

You could work with the property "allPageItems" for every selected object and untag thiese first.
Afterwards you could delete all selected items, if you really need to.

Also locked items, if you want.

Code:

var sel = app.selection;
//UNTAG ALL SELECTED ITEMS:
for(var n=0;n<sel.length;n++){
    var currentObject = sel;
    var allObjectsInCurrentObject = currentObject.allPageItems;
    if(currentObject.associatedXMLElement != null){
        currentObject.associatedXMLElement.untag();
        };
    for(var a=0;a<allObjectsInCurrentObject.length;a++){
        if(allObjectsInCurrentObject.associatedXMLElement != null){
            allObjectsInCurrentObject.associatedXMLElement.untag();
            };
        };
    };
//REMOVE ALL SELECTED ITEMS:
for(var n=sel.length-1;n>=0;n--){
    //LOCKED ITEMS WILL BE UNLOCKED: 
    if(sel.locked){sel.locked = false};
    //THEN DELETED:
    sel.remove();
    };

Uwe

StefanJonsson · Answer

bump!

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