How to place a border at the end of a table for a file with hundreds of tables?

[palala fog]

Tried to use the border menu at table set but only is allowed check all 4 sides.

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Or at least how to apply to the last row a style (in fact my tables have an empty last row not styled...) since the table configuration does not label it automatically?

 

[FRIdNGE]

Can you show us a sample-table?

(^/)  The Jedi

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

• Create a Cell Style with the bottom border you want.
• Define your Table Style to have 1 Footer row.
• In Table Style Options, assign your Cell Style to the Footer row.

Some tweaking may be needed to get a footer row only where you want it, but that sequence should do it.

This is a Cell Style named 'Footy,' applied in Table Style Options to the Footer row of Table Style 'Footed':

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@James Gifford—NitroPress 

Where in the Table STYLE can you define number of Header/Footer rows??

You can only assign CellStyle - but you can't define how many rows there will be...

OP have 100s of tables - and this can only be done in the Table Options - for each table individually - and increasing number of Header / Footer rows - results in InDesgin ADDING - not converting existing - rows...

Unless I'm missing something?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Ah... oops. Didn't realize headers/footers were not a style component. Setting tables up involves so many cross-connecting menus... 😛

[palala fog]

Robert, quite perfect. It worked very good.

Thanks for your time and the rest of information.

Just to know: it is possible to select all tabls in a file?
Best regards.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@palala fog

You are welcome. 

Yes, it's possible to select whole Table - it's trivial - but what do you want to do next? 

[Robert at ID-Tasker · Accepted solution]

@palala fog 

main();
function main(){
	var myTables = app.selection[0].tables.everyItem().getElements();
	for (var i=0; i<myTables.length;i++)
	{
		myTables[i].bottomBorderStrokeWeight = "1mm";
	};
}

This will process ONLY selection - so in order to process whole Story - you need to select all the Text in the Story.

Selecting only one TextFrame - will process only Tables in this TextFrame.

If you select only few Paragraphs in the Text - only Tables in the Selection will get processed.

If you have Tables in separte Stories - then this code would have to be modified.

There are more setting you can change:

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Table.html

Same with Left, Right & Top edges.

[FRIdNGE · Accepted solution]

app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().bottomBorderStrokeWeight = "4mm";

(^/)

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().bottomBorderStrokeWeight = "4mm";

By @FRIdNGE

Yeah, I was trying this as well - but for some reason, it wasn't working for me - but I'm not JS guy.