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Mass renaming identically-styled objects

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
January 26, 2024
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I need to rename every yellow rectangle in my project to have the same name.

Selecting them is easy, however I cannot find a way to rename them all to be the same thing, and the scripts online simply run without apparently doing anything (has the script API changed or something??)

Thanks in advance to those sparing their time to suggest approaches.
(there are a lot of yellow rectangles!)

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Correct answer Kurt Gold

Sergey Osokin has a nice script to rename selected objects (Rename Items).

It comes with a modal dialog which is pretty useful if you want to rename items often.

Rename Items by Sergey Osokin

Kurt Gold

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Sergey Osokin has a nice script to rename selected objects (Rename Items).

It comes with a modal dialog which is pretty useful if you want to rename items often.

Rename Items by Sergey Osokin

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__JMW__Author

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Yes, that worked well, thank-you.

Doug A Roberts

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Can you share a script that doesn't work as you expect?

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__JMW__Author

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Most are variants on this:

var docRef = app.activeDocument;

var sel = docRef.selection;

for (var i=0; i < sel.length; i++)

sel.name = "NewName";

CarlosCanto

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this works

var docRef = app.activeDocument;  

var sel = docRef.selection;  

for (var i=0; i < sel.length; i++)  
     sel[i].name = "NewName";

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