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How to export chapter list from book in framemaker(Unstructured)

Community Beginner ,
Mar 08, 2022 Mar 08, 2022

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I have a requirement to copy all the chapter list from a framemaker book to excel, as we are maintaining all chapters in a different folder also usig framemaker unstructured version, i am not getting any option copy the chapter list. can anyone help me with this.

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Community Expert , Mar 09, 2022 Mar 09, 2022

Copy the code below to a text file and save it with a .jsx extension. Open your FrameMaker book, and choose File > Script > Run and select the script. It will create a text file in the same folder as the book that has a list of the file names.

 

#target framemaker

main ();

function main () {

	var book;
	
	book = app.ActiveBook;
	if (book.ObjectValid () === 1) {
		if (book.Name !== "") {
			processBook (book);
		}
		else {
			alert ("Please save the book and run the script again.",
				"www.fr
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Mar 08, 2022 Mar 08, 2022

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Hello Radha,

In cases like this I'm happy to have Snagit installed. I capture the image of anything and then it extrancts the text to the clipboard (at least 95% of the text is correct).

You may send me such an image offline and get the text within the day... (unfortunately not a thing to be done every day).

But you give me the idea to create a script for this (not ready today).

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Thank you so much for your kind response, I will be more happy if you provide me the script(In future), as image conversion is not 100% correct and it will not be the direct solution for this case, as of now i am converting book file to the .mif and opening with text editor and copying all the file names. Pls give me the better idea or script if you have further.

 

Thank You.

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Copy the code below to a text file and save it with a .jsx extension. Open your FrameMaker book, and choose File > Script > Run and select the script. It will create a text file in the same folder as the book that has a list of the file names.

 

#target framemaker

main ();

function main () {

	var book;
	
	book = app.ActiveBook;
	if (book.ObjectValid () === 1) {
		if (book.Name !== "") {
			processBook (book);
		}
		else {
			alert ("Please save the book and run the script again.",
				"www.frameexpert.com");
		}
	}
}

function processBook (book) {
	
	var file, bookComp, compFile;
	
	// Make a text file in the same folder as the book.
	// It will have the same name as the book but with a txt extension.
	file = new File (book.Name.replace (/[^\.]+$/, "txt"));
	file.open ("w");
	
	bookComp = book.FirstComponentInBook;
	while (bookComp.ObjectValid () === 1) {
		compFile = new File (bookComp.Name);
		file.writeln (File.decode (compFile.name));
		bookComp = bookComp.NextBookComponentInDFSOrder;
	}
	
	file.close ();
}

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Woww... Its working absolutely thank you so much, it made my work so easy.

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Mar 10, 2022 Mar 10, 2022

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Rick, why do you write

compFile = new File (bookComp.Name);
file.writeln (File.decode (compFile.name));

and not just

file.writeln (bookComp.Name);

? In my case this provides, for example (which is the same when using Your approach):

E:\_DDDprojects\FM-JsxLib\Docu\FMjsxLib_titlepages.fm
E:\_DDDprojects\FM-JsxLib\Docu\FMjsxLibTOC.fm
...

 

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Mar 10, 2022 Mar 10, 2022

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I wasn't sure if he wanted the paths so I made a File object so I could just write the base file name. The File.decode method prevents spaces from being converted to %20, etc.

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Mar 11, 2022 Mar 11, 2022

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Interesting!

However, I have no problems with strange file names:

...\with blanks.fm
...\Ordinary.fm
...\Uni→Code.fm
...\GrünLöff.fm

 Could it be that the situation has been change on the way to FM-15 and Your method was required in previous versions of FM?

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Did you make a File object? When you make a File object it seems to encode non-ASCII characters.

Of course, I could have used this instead of a File object:

// Remove all characters up to and including the last backslash.
file.writeln (bookComp.Name.replace (/^.+\\/, ""));

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