Find Cell Style Override?

[authentic_positivity83734]

Hi folks,

Is there anyway or method to find out if any cellStyle has been overridden through InDesign JavaScript?

Thanks

AP

[Brito Haroldo]

This script by Gregor Fellenz may be useful to you: https://github.com/grefel/clearOverrides

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Do you want to FIND or do you want to just REMOVE overrides? 

[authentic_positivity83734]

I don't want to clear it.

I want to find out if cell has any cell style override.

Thanks
AP

[Brito Haroldo]

The panel "preflight" dont work to you? If you just want to find it, it works for that.

[authentic_positivity83734]

I want to find out if any cell has appliedCellStyle override through InDesign JavaScript not manually..

Thanks

AP

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

It's not so easy - as there is no "overriden" flag - so you'd have to check EVERY property of the Cell... 

[Peter Kahrel]

This came up earlier this year, and someone had a very clever solution. Unfortunately I can't find that thread now.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

In JS it should be pretty easy - get list of all properties of both objects and compare - JS offers a quick and easy way to do this - but I'm not JS guy...

[Dirk Becker · Accepted solution]

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-alert-user-for-overridden-cellstyle-in-in...

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Dirk Becker, but this only returns cells that have overrides - not which property has been overriden?

[Dirk Becker]

@Robert at ID-Tasker 

The original request was "find out if any cellStyle has been overridden"

The approach could even work across all cells of each row, or the entire table at once, then nail it down with binary search.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Yeah, it can be used as a starting point for more detailed "fishing expedition".

[authentic_positivity83734]

This solution is close so far desktop application scripting. Unfortunetly this will not work in InDesign Server Scripting.
Atleast we have something now for dekstop application atleast.

Thanks

AP

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Why not? It doesn't use clipboard so there is no reason why it shouldn't work on IDS? 

[Peter Kahrel]

InDesign Server doesn't have menus, therefore no menuActions.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Right... So the only solution is a "brute force" approach - check / compare every property... 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Wait a second... If you are working on a Server - how can you have any kind of overrides?? 

[Peter Kahrel]

A script 🙂

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

A script 🙂

By @Peter Kahrel

?? 

Are you replying to my question how there can be overrides on IDS ? 

[Peter Kahrel]

Yes.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I'm not JS guy at all so maybe I'm barking the wrong tree, but this in Google:

"js find differences between two objects" 

returns articles about:

Lodash _.isEqual() Method

https://javascript.plainenglish.io/how-to-get-the-difference-between-two-javascript-objects-e885e093...

[...] Calling this with two objects will return an array of the names of keys on the objects whose values are not equal, and also includes the names of keys that do not exist on both objects [...]

Or it won't work in the JS version that is used in the InDesign? 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Or JSON.stringify() route... 

[Peter Kahrel]

_.isEqual() is UXP-only. It works on JavaScript objects such as strings, arrays, and JSON objects, but not on most InDesign objects. For instance, cells have a name, and no two cells have the same name, and therefore _isEqual() always returns false when you compare two cells.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

But the link I've provided says, that it will return list of differences? Not just true / false?