Add Ref. No at starting of the custom artboard name

[j.khakase]

Can we add Artboard Ref.no at starting of the each selected artboard name. I don’t want to lost given custom name. just to add Ref. No at starting of the custom artboard name

[Sergey Osokin · Accepted solution]

Maybe you will find this script useful. It has a lot more options https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/jsx/BatchRenamer.jsx

[j.khakase]

Wow, Great, absolutely working

Sergey Osokin, you given me lot lot than I was expecting.

Thank you so much 🙂

[j.khakase]

Hello Sergey Osokin,

How to define color for Numbers as you shown in animation?

[Sergey Osokin]

I added a variable with color to the function. This improvement is not available on GitHub

function showAbIndex(doc, lyrName) {
  var tmpLayer;
    
  try {
    tmpLayer = doc.layers.getByName(lyrName);
  } catch (e) {
    tmpLayer = doc.layers.add();
    tmpLayer.name = lyrName;
  }

  var color = new RGBColor();
  color.red = 255;

  for (var i = 0, len = doc.artboards.length; i < len; i++)  {
    doc.artboards.setActiveArtboardIndex(i);
    var currAb = doc.artboards[i],
        abWidth = currAb.artboardRect[2] - currAb.artboardRect[0],
        abHeight = currAb.artboardRect[1] - currAb.artboardRect[3],
        label = doc.textFrames.add(),
        labelSize = (abWidth >= abHeight) ? abHeight / 2 : abWidth / 2;
    label.contents = i + 1;
    // 1296 pt limit for font size in Illustrator
    label.textRange.characterAttributes.size = (labelSize > 1296) ? 1296 : labelSize;
    label.textRange.characterAttributes.fillColor = color;
    label.position = [currAb.artboardRect[0], currAb.artboardRect[1]];
    label.move(tmpLayer, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING);
  }

  redraw();
}

[Sergey Osokin]

Uploaded a new version to Github, where you can set the index color in "CFG.idxColor: [255, 0, 0]"

[j.khakase]

Thank You so much, this will save time to review pages while renaming the artboards at complex artwork

[sbltn]

How can this be run in Adobe Illustrator? I'm new to using scripts.

[sbltn]

Disregard! I found the installation instructions. Apologies for asking too quick

[Gamm System]

hello sergey, very useful script, like all the ones you've created, but I don't understand why only the "find/replace" function works for me, however very useful. Unfortunately I can't use the "suffix/prefix" functions instead, nothing happens, it doesn't behave like in your example. Probably I'm doing something wrong... Thanks in advance
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sorry... I found out now that surely it's my machine that has problems (macOS Mojave + illustrator 25.4.8), I tried it on another more up-to-date computer with macOS monterey and illustrator 27.4.1 and everything works perfectly!, sorry again for the hasty request...

[Sergey Osokin]

Can you record a gif, mp4 example? Which version of the script are you using? You can send information in messages in my profile.

[Gamm System]

Hi Sergey, I wrote you a message from your profile, however I discovered how to use it without errors, thanks again!

[rcraighead]

This would work:

function artboardRef() {
    var aDoc = app.activeDocument;
    for (i = 0; i < aDoc.artboards.length; i++) {
        var abName = aDoc.artboards[i].name;
        aDoc.artboards[i].name = (i + 1) + '_' + abName;
    }
}

artboardRef();

[j.khakase]

Yes, Its working as expect. Thank you so much. 

[j.khakase]

It will be great, if this script works only at selected artboards in the panel, is it possible ?

[Sergey Osokin]

No. Selected layers and artboards in panels are used by the user for manual movement, but this selection is not available to the API.

[j.khakase]

Its OK, but you solved my Big problem of Renaming Artboards