Data Merge: How to use script on the preview next a record and pre a record?

[eric.x]

Preview data records too much, want to use the script implementation preview next a record and pre a record, and set shortcut keys for the script.

the following script can be opened and closed to preview:

app.menuActions.itemByID(108035).checked

But I don't know preview next a record and pre a record script in how to implement.

[jpeters]

Bump. I'm looking for this shortcut as well. Any help would be very appreciated.

[Derrington]

Any success? Does anyone know how to switch between records in preview with extendscript? Or how to access the text field in Data Merge with script?

[Derrington]

I mean text field in DataMerge panel, the one on the bottom, where you can type the record number 🙂 Can we access it similar way I can access MenuAction with ID?

[Kasyan Servetsky]

My experience: when I was writing a ‘Data Merge’ script, I found out that it’s impossible to turn on/off the preview button and switch records by the script as you can do in the Data Merge panel. This makes scripting Data Merge almost impossible. As a workaround, in this script I had to export pdf for one language from the Document object instead of the doc.dataMergeProperties object.

[Derrington]

Hi Kasyan, thank you for your reply 🙂

I managed to switch Data Merge preview ON/OFF by invoking respective Menu Action (Data Merge panel menu).

But in my case, I need to be able to select preview for specific records and then work with it further. I searched whole internet and I failed to find solution 😕