access text in library asset- undefined

[akiva_atwood]

I have a library of text snippets in text frames.

I can place the asset on my page -- but my script is unable to access the text:

    var myObj = myAsset.placeAsset(app.activeDocument); // works -- text frame placed on page

    alert(myObj.contents); // undefined

the asset was created:

     tf=app.activeDocument.pages[0].textFrames.add();

    sel.duplicate(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING,tf);

        asset= lib.store([tf]);

        asset.name=name;

    tf.remove();

I can manually select/copy the text in the asset - but I need to select and then duplicate the snippet in my main text.

Any idea why it's not working?

Thanks

[akiva_atwood]

Or is there some way to add just the text to a library without using a text frame?

[Loic.Aigon · Accepted solution]

Place method returns an array of placed objects. So even if object is an unique instance, you need to access it through the index of place array.

var placed = ….place ( … ) [0];

FWIW

Loic

[TᴀW]

What does placeAsset actually return?

Without experimenting, just looking at the documentation, it seems it returns an Array.

So perhaps this will work:

var myObj = myAsset.placeAsset(app.activeDocument)[0];

Ariel

[akiva_atwood]

Thanks to Loic.Aigon and TaW - that solved it