Get Content of Pgf

[Yannick5E3C]

Hello again!

So my issue today goes as follows:

I have formatted text in my document which I want to 

1. Catch it

2. Write the text to the end of the previous paragraph 

3. Delete the original pgf

So here is what I have so far:

 //MOVE + DELETE NOTE TEXTS
function MoveNoteText(doc)
{
    
    for(var i = 0; i < countNT; i++){
        
     var note = doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;
     while (note.ObjectValid()) {
        
     if (note.Name == "Geschenk" || note.Name == "Achtung" || note.Name == "Hinweis") {
             
             pgf = note.PrevPgfInFlow;
             tl = new TextLoc(pgf, Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET-1);
             doc.AddText(tl, "PLACEHOLDER-TEXT-ICON");         
             
             note.Delete();
             } 
          else if(note.Name == "Hinweis_text") {
             
             text = Content of Paragraph should be caught here
             pgf = note.PrevPgfInFlow;
             tl = new TextLoc(pgf, Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET-1);
             doc.AddText(tl, text); 
             
             note.Delete();
             }
         
         note = note.NextPgfInFlow;
         
      }
   }
}

I am stuck at the point on which I want to get the text inside the pgf (if "Hinweis_text") ... Dont know how to do that. I kind of found out how to get the Text Items: 

text = note.GetText(-1); //To get all TI

But how can I fetch the text?

Thanks in advance!

[Klaus Göbel]

Hi Yannick,

have a look at this :https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker/script-no-longer-working/m-p/11071057?page=1

Look for "function getText (textObj, doc)"

[Yannick5E3C]

Hi Klaus,

I don't really get how to get this working sorry...

I tried this:

             textObjs = note.GetText(-1);
             
             for(var x = 0; x < textObj.length; x++) {
                  text += textObj[x].GetText(Constants.FTI_String);
                 }
             

First I get all the text items in the paragraph, then I try to put them together. However, this code gives an error.

[Klaus Göbel · Accepted solution]

Your code line:

pgf = note.PrevPgfInFlow;

After that insert :

var NewText = GetTextFromPgf(pgf);

And the add this function:

function GetTextFromPgf(foPgf)
{
var locTextItems = foPgf.GetText (Constants.FTI_String);

var sTestText = "";
for (var i = 0; i <= locTextItems.length -1; i++)
{
sTestText = sTestText + locTextItems[i].sdata;
}

return sTestText;

}

[Yannick5E3C]

Thanks! This worked just perfectly.

Really appreciate your help!

[Klaus Göbel]

You're welcome - gern geschehen

[Yannick5E3C]

Maybe one more question here:

Lets say I have the same format I picked the pgfs with as tables with anchors.

I am playing around at the moment, trying to figure out how to pick the table. 

So far I am only able to select the anchor but as i need the text inside the table I asked myself if there is a way to kind of tell the script "here's your anchor, so now jump into the table (second column) and extract the text there. I know it might be better to select the tables right away, not by the anchor but I can't select them via "FirstTableInDoc -> if(table.Name == whatever)" somehow. 

Would be great if you (or someone else) could give me some hint there^^ 

Thanks again!

[Klaus Göbel]

Hi Yannick,

here you find several examples how to handle tables and cells:

http://extendingframemaker.blogspot.com/2011/12/tables.html

- creating tables

- adding row to table

- adding columns to table

- getting table cells row by row

and so on....

That helped me when I started scripting. I'm sure, it will help you, too.

If that doesn't answer your questions, just drop a line here in the forum

[MeanGuy]

Hi Klaus... again,

I am sorry, but i am really struggling with this. 

As stated in the blow, I need to use the

doc.MainFlowInDoc.GetText(Constants.FTI_TblAnchor); to get the tables in flow order. 

But what exactly do I get here? Does this fetch all Tables? Or just the TextItems in the first Table? How am I able to iterate through and select the table by formats within the cells?

I have tables with one row and two columns. 

-> I need to get the format of the text in the first column (first cell (only cell)) and distinguish. Something 

     like tbl.FirstColumnInTbl.Name (I know that this doesn't work)

-> After that I delete the first column depending on the format

-> Then jumo to the next column with, get format too, save the text within and write it in the previous 

     as I did before with your help.

-> Then delete this column too (maybe skip deletion of first column and delete the whole table here)

I am still stuck by figuring out how I can even iterate throuch and find the tables with the wanted formats within.

Sorry again, I am usually not working with this, just started like 2 or 3 weeks ago and yeah... 

Thanks for your help again!

[MeanGuy]

Lol, sorry for all the typos... Hope it's still readable.

[Klaus Göbel]

Hi Yannick,

the whole answer would be very time consuming, because it's not only ONE answer.

But I could give you some hints:

doc.MainFlowInDoc.GetText(Constants.FTI_TblAnchor)

 That gives you an array of textitems. Textitems does NOT mean, that it is text.

In this case it's TableAnchors.

var oTextItems = doc.MainFlowInDoc.GetText(Constants.FTI_TblAnchor)
var Table = oTextItems[0].obj // here you get the "REAL" table. Make sure that a table exists. You can use a loop to go through
var oRow = oTable.FirstRowInTbl;    // First row in the table
    
var oLastRow = oTable.FirstRowInTbl;    // Last row in the table
var oCell = oRow.FirstCellInRow;   
var oPgf = oCell.FirstPgf // here you get a PGF - go on with NextPgf to find all Pgfs in Cell
var PgfFmt =  oPgf.Name  // PgfFmt

oRow.Delete(); // Delete the row.

Hope it helps a bit.

[MeanGuy]

Hey again!

Thank you very much! You are my hero haha^^

I figured it out with your help again.

Big greetings

Yannick