ungroup all groups on an active layer(JavaScript).

[DuanesSearchForKnowledge]

Does anyone know how one would go about ungrouping all groups on an active layer with JavaScript?

[CarlosCanto]

there are no group or ungroup commands, to group you create a groupItem Object and move stuff inside it. To ungroup, you take stuff out of the group (move them out).

[DuanesSearchForKnowledge]

bummer.

Thanks for the info.

Could anyone give an example of moving pageItems out of a group of the active layer?

I know how to get the value of all the group Items in an active layer but I do not know the proper syntax to use to pull the page items out of it.

[CarlosCanto]

look here, I made an "ungroup" function

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3842344#3842344

[DuanesSearchForKnowledge]

Awesome! I have more than one group on the layer and by adding a For loop to get the value of all groups I was able to use your example to get those groups out of there.

var myLayer = app.activeDocument.activeLayer;

var group = thisDoc.activeLayer.groupItems;

for (d=0;d<group.length;d++){

    var mygroups = group;

          for (i=mygroups.pageItems.length-1; i>=0; i--)

               mygroups.pageItems.move(myLayer, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING);

     }

Unfortunately I will have groups within groups from time to time. Do you know a way to make the script check for groups on the active layer over and over till there are no more groups? It escapes me.

Thanks for your help,

Duane

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

you're looking for "Recursion", check this thread, Mark has a sample of how to recurse layers and groups.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3387938#3387938