Can you loop through a set number of open documents without closing them?

[JustyR]

Hi all,

Is that possible?

If I always have 8 documents open, I want to run the script on all 8, but without having to save and close each one - like a WHILE loop would do.

I just can't get this to work on more than one open file...

for (var i = 0; i < app.documents.length; i++) {
    var doc = app.activeDocument;
    var ABs = doc.artboards;
    ABs.setActiveArtboardIndex(176); //put KM variable in here
    doc.selectObjectsOnActiveArtboard();
    }

 Can anyone help at all? Many thanks, J

[m1b]

Hi @JustyR, change to

var doc = app.documents[i];

[JustyR]

Hmmm, I thought that would do it, but it still only works on the one open doc.

for (var i = 0; i < app.documents.length; i++) {
    var doc = app.documents[i];
    var ABs = doc.artboards;
    ABs.setActiveArtboardIndex(176); //put KM variable in here
    doc.selectObjectsOnActiveArtboard();
    }

[femkeblanco · Accepted solution]

Add

doc.activate();

after var doc = app.documents[i];

[JustyR]

That did the trick. Many thanks to you both.