Hide Layers

[Channers]

Hi! I just found a thread regarding hiding/showing all the layers in open documents, however the code's not doing anything when I try to run it.

var openDocuments = app.documents.everyItem().getElements();

for( var n=0; n<openDocuments.length; n++ )
{ 
	var currentDoc = openDocuments[n] ;
	var currentLayers = currentDoc.layers.everyItem().getElements();
	
	for ( var j =0; j <currentLayers.length ; j++)
	{ 
		var currentLayer = currentLayers[j];
		if ( /Guides|Dieline/.test ( currentLayer.name ) )
		{ 
			currentLayer.visible = false;
		};

	};

} ;

I'm also trying to make it to work only in a current document. Does anyone how to fix the lines above?

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

The script will make only those layers hidden which has Guides or Dieline in the layer name. If you want to hide all the layers then comment/remove out the following line

if ( /Guides|Dieline/.test ( currentLayer.name ) )

 -Manan

[Channers]

It worked. Thank you!

[Manan Joshi]

If you just want to work only on the current document then you can use the following one-liner as well

app.documents[0].layers.everyItem().visible = false

For all open documents, you can use the following code as well

app.documents.everyItem().layers.everyItem().visible = false

-Manan