Find and replace text by condition

[Rogerio5C09]

Hi all! Can I have a script that finds text with "Condition 1" applied and replaces it with the text from "Condition 2"? I guess it should be a simple copy-paste?

I have already created and applied the conditions in the document. No need any fancy options or dialog boxe.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Regards,

Rogerio

[Rogerio5C09]

Just to clarify, there's a way to create and apply conditions to a text in InDesign via Conditional Text panel. It works like Layers, but for the text inside the frames instead - the condition marks up (by underlining or highlighting) the selected text and you can easily hide it from the document. It's very useful!

If we have a script for an appliedCharacterStyle, we can change it to  "appliedConditions" and I believe it should do the trick 🙂

[Willi Adelberger]

You can always apply a character style to text with a condition manuallxy. Problem is only, if a text has 2 conditions. In such a case you need to create a 3rd character style which represents 2 applied conditions,

[Rogerio5C09]

Thanks for checking @Willi Adelberger! In this case, each text has only 1 condition applied. Basicaly, the script needs to copy the text with "Condition 2" applied and pasted it over (overwrite) the text in the "Condition 1".

[Rogerio5C09]

Hi everyone, I have managed to code it myself, but somehow the script only works when I have a single document open. Is there any way to make it work with multiple files? Here's the code:

for (var d=0; d<app.documents.length; d++)
{
var doc = app.documents[d];

var conditions = app.documents[d].conditions.item("Condition 2").visible = true;

app.findTextPreferences = null;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedConditions = ["Condition 2"];
var found = doc.findText();
for(var i =0;i<found.length;i++)
{
    try{
        found[i].select();
     }catch(e){}
    }
app.findTextPreferences = null;
   
try {
	app.selection[0].texts[0].select();
    app.cut();
} catch (_)
{
    }

app.findTextPreferences = null;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedConditions = ["Condition 1"];
var found = doc.findText();
for(var i =0;i<found.length;i++)
{
    try{
        found[i].select();
     }catch(e){}
    }
app.findTextPreferences = null;
   
try {
	app.selection[0].texts[0].select(SelectionOptions.REPLACE_WITH);
    app.paste();
} catch (_)
{
    }

[Anantha Prabu G · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Use the Folder object:

var fold = Folder(“some/path”);
var inddFiles =fold.getFiles(“*.indd”);
for (var i = 0; i < inddFiles.length; i++) {
var doc = app.open(inddFiles[i]);
//do stuff
}