How to switch to the book window

[K.Daube]

Dear friends and experts,

After performing a number of actions on the files of a book the last document is open and active.

Now I should re-activate the book window to perform another set of actions (running through the book components).

I have not found a method to switch/activate to the book window in a script.

if (app.FirstOpenBook.ObjectValid()){
  alert ("We have a book") };
else { alert ("There is no book in this session")};

I can assure with this that there is a book, but how to make it active?

[frameexpert · Accepted solution]

Hi Klaus,

You can store the book object in a variable so you can refer to it later. So you could do this:

if (app.FirstOpenBook.ObjectValid ()) {
    var book = app.FirstOpenBook;
}
else {
    alert ("There is no open book in this session.");
}

or if the book is active when you start:

if (app.ActiveBook.ObjectValid ()) {
    var book = app.ActiveBook;
} 
else {
    alert ("There is no active book.");
}

Now when you need to refer to the book in later code, just use the book variable from line 02.

-Rick

[K.Daube]

Rick, as often I was to fearful just to try something:

As You point out it's that simple:

if (app.FirstOpenBook.ObjectValid()){
  alert ("We have a book") 
  book = app.FirstOpenBook;
  bookComp = book.FirstComponentInBook
  while(bookComp.ObjectValid()) {                 // process only FM docs
    if (bookComp.BookComponentFileType === Constants.FV_BK_FM) {
      docName = bookComp.Name;
      alert ("docName= "+ docName);
    }
    bookComp = bookComp.NextBookComponentInDFSOrder;
  }
};
else { alert ("There is no book in this session")};