Indesign Script for swatches and object style's names

[marie-èvet66874927]

Hi! I would like to add a suffixe (with a prompt) to all the swatches and object style's name of a document. I do that to the style of character, paragraphes, cell and table but, but i'm not able for these two things...

Here is the «script» that i tried for the swatches :

var before = prompt("Entrer le suffixe voulu", "_");

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

var mySwatches = myDoc.swatches;

for (var s = 2; i < mySwatches.length; s++){

var mySwatch = myDoc.swatches[s];

var name = mySwatch.name;

var myColorValueArray = before + name; }

And here the script that work for the other style:

var allParaStyles = app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles;

var allCharStyles = app.activeDocument.allCharacterStyles;

var allTablStyles = app.activeDocument.allTableStyles;

var allCellStyles = app.activeDocument.allCellStyles;

var before = prompt("Entrer le suffixe voulu", "_");

for (var i = 2; i < allCharStyles.length; i++) {

  var curStyle = allCharStyles[i];

  var curName = curStyle.name;

  if (curName.indexOf(before) == -1) {

    var newName = before + curName;

    curStyle.name = newName;

  }

}

for (var i = 2; i < allParaStyles.length; i++) {

  var curStyle = allParaStyles[i];

  var curName = curStyle.name;

  if (curName.indexOf(before) == -1) {

    var newName = before + curName;

    curStyle.name = newName;

  }

}

for (var i = 2; i < allTablStyles.length; i++) {

  var curStyle = allTablStyles[i];

  var curName = curStyle.name;

  if (curName.indexOf(before) == -1) {

    var newName = before + curName;

    curStyle.name = newName;

  }

}

for (var i = 2; i < allCellStyles.length; i++) {

  var curStyle = allCellStyles[i];

  var curName = curStyle.name;

  if (curName.indexOf(before) == -1) {

    var newName = before + curName;

    curStyle.name = newName;

  }

}

alert("Le script a été exécuté avec succès.");

Thank you!

[Manan Joshi]

You are not assigning the new name to mySwatch.name as you do in your working code. Add the following line before the closing braces in your code

mySwatch.name = myColorValueArray

-Manan

[marie-èvet66874927]

Thanks for the reply 🙂

THe line you make me add, makes me a error.

error number: 90889. Cannot edit this color property.

Can you help?

And do you have an idea for a script in this kind that will add a suffixe at the name of all object style?

Thanks you!!!!

[Manan Joshi]

Try the following code

var before = prompt("Entrer le suffixe voulu", "_");
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
for (var s = 0; s < myDoc.swatches.length; s++)
{
	var mySwatch = myDoc.swatches[s];
	try{
		mySwatch.name = before + mySwatch.name
	}catch(e){}
}

The reason it was crashing is that we can't change the name of some of the predefined swatches, for this same reason your code was starting the loop with index 2, but it seems there are more than 2 such swatches or maybe the ordering of swatches returned is not the same everytime(did not test this). So what i did is enlose the statement that changes the name into a try catch block so even if the statement fails for a swatch the code does not crash

For object styles just copy this code and change myDoc.swatches with myDoc.objectStyles, it should work

-Manan

[marie-èvet66874927]

Thanks Manan!!!!! It works perfectly 🙂

[Laubender]

Hi Manan,

because you can move around all swatches in the Swatches Panel you cannot rely on the default position of swatches.

And therefore you cannot rely on the index position of [None], [Registration], [Paper], [Black].

Default names after index in my German InDesign CC 2019:

0 None
1 Registration
2 Paper
3 Black
4 C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0
5 C=0 M=100 Y=0 K=0
6 C=0 M=0 Y=100 K=0
7 C=15 M=100 Y=100 K=0
8 C=75 M=5 Y=100 K=0
9 C=100 M=90 Y=10 K=0

Now be prepared for a little surprise.

Especially watch the index of [None]!

Swatches moved around in the panel:

Result after index:

0	None
1	C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0
2	C=0 M=100 Y=0 K=0
3	C=0 M=0 Y=100 K=0
4	C=15 M=100 Y=100 K=0
5	Black
6	Paper
7	C=75 M=5 Y=100 K=0
8	Registration
9	C=100 M=90 Y=10 K=0

Another composition:

And the result listed after index:

0	C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0
1	C=0 M=100 Y=0 K=0
2	None
3	C=0 M=0 Y=100 K=0
4	C=15 M=100 Y=100 K=0
5	Black
6	Paper
7	C=75 M=5 Y=100 K=0
8	Registration
9	C=100 M=90 Y=10 K=0

This time the index of [None] reflects its position in the Swatches Panel.

Code to build the list:

var s = app.documents[0].swatches;

for( var n=0; n<s.length; n++ )
{
	$.writeln( n +"\t"+ s[n].name );
}

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Manan Joshi]

Hi Uwe,

Thanks for sharing your investigation results, i had anticipated this behaviour that is why i kept my loop starting from 0 and used a try catch block to avoid the code crash. The behaviour of None is interesting though, it seems its random and not something that is following a pattern.

-Manan