batch over ride document numbering options in Book

[Wroxy5C17]

Hi, I work on a magazine where the articles get drawn as separate InDesign documents and I collate them later as a book file. The page numbers for some are set to start at 2 (for example) so the article starts on a spread.

When I collate them I have to go into each article and update the document numbering options to ‘Automatic’ from whatever it was previously, this is a little repetitive and time consuming.

Is there a way when all the documents are in the book I can set all numbering to automatically follow the previous one without changing them individually, basically over ride the numbering command please?

Thanks in advance.

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

You'll have to change the documents, there's no way to override auto/manual page numbering starts at the book level. But you can a simple one-line script to make the change. Open all the documents (probably not the first document in the book) and run this script:

app.documents.everyItem().sections[0].continueNumbering = true;

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[Kasyan Servetsky · Accepted solution]

I wrote a couple of simple scripts for this task. For my magazine, I had to skip the beginning of the block starting from page 3. Remove this condition if you don't want this.

[Wroxy5C17]

Worked great, thanks both!