Apply Setting to TextFrames and Tables inside any Group of Page Items in Document

Hi together,

why not accessing all stories of the document in one go?

app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().properties =
{
	appliedLanguage : "$ID/Arabic" ,
	composer : "$ID/HL Composer Optyca" ,
	paragraphDirection : ParagraphDirectionOptions.RIGHT_TO_LEFT_DIRECTION ,
	storyPreferences : { storyDirection : StoryDirectionOptions.RIGHT_TO_LEFT_DIRECTION }
};

Ok. That said, the above code will leave out:

[1] Table text cells

[2] Footnote texts

[3] Text in Notes objects

To get table cells one could access the tables via the story objects.

( But this will leave out tables inside table cells. )

app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().texts.everyItem().properties =
{
	appliedLanguage : "$ID/Arabic" ,
	composer : "$ID/HL Composer Optyca" ,
	paragraphDirection : ParagraphDirectionOptions.RIGHT_TO_LEFT_DIRECTION
};

This should work if at least one table in the document contains a single text cell.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

Just use the Document.allPageItems collection array, which gets page items in groups (and anchored objects too, which your current attempt misses):

var apis = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
var i = apis.length;
while (i--) }
    if apis[i] instanceof TextFrame {
        //Do your thing
    }
}

A few things are odd but I'll take my best guess at what might work. First odd thing is getting pages, everyItem, then pageItems, everyItem, then elements. This is just not needed. Simply get doc.pageItems. But then you are correct that some of those are groups, inside of which are other pageItems, and that will require a recursive function. How your code deals with that isn't clear (to me anyway). Here is how I would approach the problem... but I don't have your document to test, so I can't guarantee this will work. It should, in theory anyway, which this code is just theortical out of my head at the moment....

var doc = app.activeDocument;
processItems(doc.pageItems);

function processItems(items) {
    var i;
    var item;
    var text;
    for (i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
        item = items[i];
        if (item.getElements()[0].constructor.name == "Group") {
            // Recurse (call self)
            processItems(item.pageItems);
        } else {
            // Not a group
            if (item.getElements()[0].constructor.name == "TextFrame") {
                text = item.texts[0];
                //Apply Settings
                text.appliedLanguage = "Arabic";
                text.composer = "Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer";
                text.paragraphDirection = 1379028068; //RTL
                text.storyPreferences.storyDirection = 137902806;
            }
        }
    }
}