Find objects by title/name

[cmoke73]

Hi everybody.

In a large document I like to let my script search for objects of the same kind. They should be found and pushed into a layer (I have to create).

My Idea was to search by the name or by the title of that object. It is an Illustrator-created-button.  In the link-menue one can find those informations about. But how can I reach those information via script?

It doesn´t work with:

 app.select(myDoc.pageItems.itemByName("object_name")

Any idea?

[Loic_Aigon1]

Given that myDoc is properly referenced and object_name the actual name of the item then there are no reason your commend wouldn't work to the exception of the forgotten closing parenthesis.

[cmoke73]

There is a closing parenthesis in the original script.

But I´m not sure "itemByName" means THAT name (from the meta-data)

[cmoke73 · Accepted solution]

After a while, I resolved the problem by myself... that´s more interresting

var myDoc = app.activeDocument,
myName="this is a name",
//myPages = myDoc.pages.everyItem(),
myLayers = myDoc.layers,
myRectangles = myDoc.rectangles;
app.doScript(selectObjects, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "moving things");
function selectObjects(){
    if( !myDoc.layers.itemByName(myName).isValid ){
        mySpecialLayer = myDoc.layers.add({name:myName, layerColor: UIColors.GOLD});
            }
    else{alert("There is already a level with the name.")};
    for(var i=0;i<myRectangles.length;i++){
    if(myRectangles.graphics.length == 1) {
        if(myRectangles.graphics[0].itemLink.name == "Button1.ai" || myRectangles.graphics[0].itemLink.name == "Button2.eps"){
            myRectangles.move(mySpecialLayer);
            }
          }
    }
}

Voilá.