Change Row-type

[cmoke73]

Hello everybody.

It is really a simple thing. And for me it makes sense like I wrote that script. Unfortunatly: it does not work . Where is my error in reasoning?

...

if (myTables.rows.firstItem().rowType == RowTypes.BODY_ROW) { 
     myTables.rows[0].rowType = RowTypes.HEADER_ROW; ) 
} 
if (myTables.rows[-1].rowType == RowTypes.BODY_ROW) { 
     myTables.rows[-1].rowType = RowTypes.FOOTER_ROW; 
}  

...

Nothing will be detected betweeen the parantheses. --> The condition has no function. There is no error-message too.

[Kasyan Servetsky]

I see only one problem in your code: the line 2 has a closing round bracket at the end.

Otherwise it works for me on my InDesign CC 2015 for Mac.

main();
function main() {
    var myTables = app.selection[0]; // Let's assume a table is selected
    if (myTables.rows[0].rowType == RowTypes.BODY_ROW) {   
         myTables.rows[0].rowType = RowTypes.HEADER_ROW;  
    }   
    if (myTables.rows[-1].rowType == RowTypes.BODY_ROW) {   
         myTables.rows[-1].rowType = RowTypes.FOOTER_ROW;   
    }
}

Also, I recommend you to use rows[0] instead of rows.firstItem() because it's faster.

— Kas

[Trevor:]

If you have a cell selected then the following code works

myTables = app.selection[0].parent;
if (myTables.rows[0].rowType == RowTypes.BODY_ROW) {   
     myTables.rows[0].rowType = RowTypes.HEADER_ROW;   
}   
if (myTables.rows[-1].rowType == RowTypes.BODY_ROW) {   
     myTables.rows[-1].rowType = RowTypes.FOOTER_ROW;   
}

Check that your "myTables" is really a table, alert(myTables)