Script to rename artboards from textbox values?

This is based on the "Artboard title text frame" being the bottom-most textframe in an artboard.

var doc = app.activeDocument;
doc.selection = null;
var ABs = doc.artboards;
for (var i = 0; i < ABs.length; i++) {
    ABs.setActiveArtboardIndex(i);
    doc.selectObjectsOnActiveArtboard();
    var frames = [];
    for (var j = 0; j < doc.selection.length; j++) {
        if (doc.selection[j].typename == "TextFrame") {
            frames.push(doc.selection[j])
        }
    }
    frames.sort(function(a, b) {return a.top - b.top;})
    ABs[i].name = frames[0].contents;
}

So you want to have some text on each artboard that sets the artboards name? It can sort of be done in various ways. How about this approach:

1. you make a textFrame item with a 'name' (in the layers panel) of "NAME_ARTBOARD_1".

2. you set the contents of the textFrame to, for example, "Figure A".

3. you repeat steps 2 and 3 for each artboard you wish to name—"NAME_ARTBOARD_2" and "Figure B", etc.

4. run a script that finds all the textFrames from step 1 and names the artboard at index 1, 2, etc. with the contents "Figure A" etc.

That would work, but you'd have to run the script again whenever you made a change. What is your scripting knowledge?

- Mark

Can you show a screenshot of an example?