ExtendScript, InDesign 2022: Return `parentPage`s of last cells of all tables

[tobias.wantzen]

I’m trying to bring this function alive:

$.writeln( findPagesOfLastCells() );

function findPagesOfLastCells() {
// https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/javascript-property-to-tell-if-text-is-in-a-continued-table/td-p/6379093
    var aDoc = app.activeDocument,
        allTables = aDoc.stories.everyItem().tables,
        thePages = []; 
    if( allTables.length > 0 ) {
        for ( var i = 0; i < allTables.length; i++ ) {
            var theTable = allTables[i];
$.writeln('***********tables************\n'+theTable);
            if ( theTable.rows.length > 1 ) {
                var lastRowPage = 0;
                lastRowPage = theTable.rows[-1].cells[-1].insertionPoints[-1].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage;
$.writeln(lastRowPage);
                thePages.push(lastRowPage.name);
$.writeln(lastRowPage.name);
            }
        }
    }
    return thePages;
}

 The crucial parts is here:

lastRowPage = theTable.rows[-1].cells[-1].insertionPoints[-1].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage;

This doesn’t work and results to undefined. It works fine with this:

theTable.rows[-1].cells[-1].insertionPoints[-1]

I get an insertion point with all properties, including a parentTextFrames property. But extending to

theTable.rows[-1].cells[-1].insertionPoints[-1].parentTextFrames[0]

I get a text frame reference with no property at all.

Is this a bug? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your kind help,

Tobias

[Laubender]

Hi Tobias,

voted and commented your feature request.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

[tobias.wantzen]

Thanks, Uwe! And, yes, geometricBounds and visibleBounds would be nice either.

Feature requests are very frustrating. Years pass and nothing happens. It’s nearly as frustrating as the few new features in new InDesign versions.

To the community it looks, like InDesign’s development is nearly dead.

Kind regards,

Tobias