Change Specific Paragraph Style to Nothing and Delete All Empty Frames

Question

Hi Experts, I have a problem, i'm trying to simulate the situation of using find/change like this :So if i use the Above method it will find the Paragraph Style (Numbering) and Delete All Text inside its frames, this is good trick to get rid of all text applied (paragraph styles) then i use the following code to delete all empty frames ://Delete All Empty Text Frames
var myStories = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().getElements();
for (i = myStories.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
    var myTextFrames = myStories[i].textContainers;
    for (j = myTextFrames.length - 1; j >= 0; j--)    {
        if (myTextFrames[j].contents == ""){
            myTextFrames[j].remove();
        }
    }
}but what i need to do is to Simulate all the Process with only JavaScript, so it will to get rid from all the text and frames with one hit,  here is my try ://Change Paragraph Styles from Desired to Nothing and Delete Empty Frames
var allPars = app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();
alert(allPars.length);
for (var i = 0; i < allPars.length; i++) {
   if (allPars[i].appliedParagraphStyle.name == "Numbering") {
      allPars[i].appliedParagraphStyle = "";
   }
}

//Delete All Empty Text Frames
var myStories = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().getElements();
for (i = myStories.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
    var myTextFrames = myStories[i].textContainers;
    for (j = myTextFrames.length - 1; j >= 0; j--)    {
        if (myTextFrames[j].contents == ""){
            myTextFrames[j].remove();
        }
    }
}but i get ther error code : 30477 so please help if this can be done ?Thanks in AdvanceBest RegardsM.Hasanain

Manan Joshi · Accepted Answer

As @brian_p_dts mentioned the error is pretty descriptive and tells all. To give you a hint, what does the "Nothing" paragraph style(you mentioned in your code) that you are trying to apply mean? Can you apply this paragraph style using the InDesign UI, if so then is it named ""? if yes then how do you find it in the UI?

Coming to another point if you are trying to simulate the find/change functionality you can use it straightaway in your code, no need to iterate paragraphs etc. An prospective alternate solution to your problem is given below

app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null
app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = app.documents[0].paragraphStyles.itemByName("Numbering")
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = ""
var match = app.documents[0].changeText()
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null
for(var i = 0; i < match.length; i++)
{
	var tf = match[i].parentTextFrames
	if(tf[0].contents == "") tf[0].remove()
}

However do try to fix the code that you were writing to understand what you were missing, i gave you plenty of hints to move in the direction of the solution

-Manan

Sunil Yadav · Answer

Hi, Change this below line allPars[i].appliedParagraphStyle = "";with this below lineallPars[i].appliedParagraphStyle = app.documents[0].paragraphStyles[0];BestSunil

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