How to remove a condition tag?

[K.Daube]

Edit 2022-06-25

Dear experts

I developed a script derived from Rick Quatro's excursus on Deleting Conditions.

→ Running the script does not remove the condition from the text.

Any ideas about this?

For easy testing my case you have here a complete script with no dependencies...

Use the test file on my website.

//@target framemaker
var KLD_Z = KLD_Z || {};                          // global script object

KLD_Z.RemoveConditionsFromText = function (oDoc, oTR, aRemoveConds) { // ======
/*            Get the list of properties and methods (functions) of an object
Arguments     oDoc            Current document
              oTR             TextRange of the found conditions
              aRemoveConds    Array of conditions (names) to be removed
Reference     http://frameautomation.com/removing-conditions-from-text-and-table-rows-part-4/
*/
var oProps, asCondFmts, j;
  oProps = oDoc.GetTextPropVal (oTR.beg, Constants.FP_InCond);
  asCondFmts = oProps.propVal.osval;  // Get a list of the conditions
  if (asCondFmts.length === 0) {
      return; // No conditions are applied to the text range
  }
  for (j = 0; j < asCondFmts.length; j += 1) {
    if  (KLD_Z.IsInArray (aRemoveConds, asCondFmts[j].Name) != null) {
      Array.prototype.splice.call (asCondFmts, j, 1); // Remove from list.
    }
  }
//  Following condition is always false
  if (asCondFmts.length !== oProps.propVal.osval.length) {
    oProps.propVal.osval = asCondFmts; // apply updated list back to TR
    oDoc.SetTextPropVal (oTR, oProps);
  }
} // End RemoveConditionsFromText ---------------------------------------

KLD_Z.IsInArray = function (array, item) { //==========================
/*            Get index of item in array
Returns       Index of found item or null
*/
var j, jMax;
  jMax = array.length;
  for (j = 0; j < jMax; j++) {
    if (array [j] == item ) { return j;}
  }
  return null;                                    // not found in array
} //--- end IsInArray -------------------------------------------------

KLD_Z.GetFindParameters = function (sFType, sSearch) { //==============
// stripped down to the essentials for this test case
var findParms, jj, oPropVal1, oPropVal2;

  findParms = new PropVals();
  oPropVal1 = new PropVal() ; // ---------------- NoWrap
  oPropVal1.propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindWrap ;
  oPropVal1.propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Integer;
  oPropVal1.propVal.ival = 0 ; // no wrap
  findParms.push(oPropVal1);

  oPropVal2 = new PropVal() ;
  if (sFType == "CONTAG") { // ------------------- Conditional tags
    oPropVal2.propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindCondTextInCondTags;
    oPropVal2.propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Strings;
    oPropVal2.propVal.ssval[0] = sSearch;         // "cond1"
//  The following does not work in ES
//  for (jj = 0; jj < sSearch.length; jj++) { // ["cond1", "cond2", …]
//    oPropVal2.propVal.ssval[jj] = sSearch[jj];
//  }
  }
  findParms.push(oPropVal2);
return findParms;
} //---  end GetFindParameters ----------------------------------------

KLD_Z.main = function () { // <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
var oDoc, oFindParms, oTR;
  oDoc=app.ActiveDoc;
  oTR = oDoc.TextSelection
// Create a text Selection of the conditional text
$.bp(true);
  oFindParms = KLD_Z.GetFindParameters ("CONTAG", "Comment");
  oTR = oDoc.Find(oTR.beg, oFindParms);
  oDoc.TextSelection = oTR;
  KLD_Z.RemoveConditionsFromText (oDoc,oTR, ["Comment"]);
} //--- end main ------------------------------------------------------

KLD_Z.main ();

[K.Daube]

Observation two:

When eliminating the final if in function RemoveConditionsFromText

//  Following condition is always false
//if (asCondFmts.length !== oProps.propVal.osval.length) {
    oProps.propVal.osval = asCondFmts; // apply updated list back to TR
    oDoc.SetTextPropVal (oTR, oProps);
//}

... then in the TR with the combined conditions ...

... the non-overlapping condition Comment is removed, and the combination (Comment+Detail) is extended into this area.

[K.Daube]

IMHO the second statement in the sequence does not what it should. 

//if (asCondFmts.length !== oProps.propVal.osval.length) {
    oProps.propVal.osval = asCondFmts;  // apply the updated       OK
    oDoc.SetTextPropVal (oTR, oProps);
//}
  oPropsDone = oDoc.GetTextPropVal (oTR.beg, Constants.FP_InCond); //  NOK

Therefore I added the test oPropsDone.

At line "OK"	At line "NOK"

Do You have any ideas what's going on here?