INDESIGN TEMPLATE INSERT DATE CS3 PROMBLEM

[_mmedeiros_]

I have a indesign template with a text box that is filled by the script - The date looks like this -

Friday, August 22, 2008

The script worked perfect in CS2 when I upgraded to CS3 it no longer works???? Not sure about this one????

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BELOW IS THE ERROR I'M GETTING
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JavaScript Error!

Error Number: 24
Error String: aDoc.search is not a function
Line:29
Source: aDoc.search("", false, false, dateString,{appliedCharacterStyle:cStyleName});

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//DESCRIPTION: Use to insert date/time into document.

if (app.documents.length == 0) { exit() }
insertDTs(app.documents[0]);

function insertDTs(aDoc) {
var curPrefs = aDoc.characterStyles[0].extractLabel("dtprefs");
if (curPrefs == "") {
// Doc has no prefs; use saved prefs
curPrefs = getCurPrefs(File(getScriptPath().absoluteURI.replace(/Insert\.jsx/, "Prefs.txt")));
} // end if curPrefs
var prefParts = curPrefs.split("\n");
if (prefParts[2] != "[None]") {
insertIt(aDoc, prefParts[0], prefParts[2]);
}
if (prefParts[3] != "[None]") {
insertIt(aDoc, prefParts[1], prefParts[3]);
}

function insertIt(aDoc, formString, cStyleName) {
var formStrings= ["Day, Month, Year"]
var theFuncs = [dayMonthYear]
var charStyleStrings = aDoc.characterStyles.everyItem().name
if (indexOf(charStyleStrings, cStyleName) < 1) { return } // style not found or is No Style
var func = indexOf(formStrings, formString);
if (func < 0) { return } // requested form not recognized
var dateString = theFuncs[func](new Date());
aDoc.search("", false, false, dateString, {appliedCharacterStyle:cStyleName});
} // end insertIt

function dayMonthYear(date) {
date.setDate(date.getDate()+1);
// returns dayName, monthName date, year
var myDateString = date.toLocaleDateString();
myParts = myDateString.split(" 0");
if (myParts.length != 1) {
myDateString = myParts[0] + " " +myParts[1];
}
return myDateString.slice(0,-5) + "," + myDateString.slice(-5);

}


function indexOf(array, find,offs) {
for( var i = offs == undefined ? 0 : offs; array.length > i; i++ ) {
if( array==find ) {return i}
}
return -1;
}

function getScriptPath() {
// This function returns the path to the active script, even when running ESTK
try {
return app.activeScript;
} catch(e) {
return File(e.fileName);
} // end try
} // end getScriptPath

} // end insertDTs

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[_Dave_Saunders_]

It's a CS2 script. Try putting it into a folder named "Version 4.0 Scripts" (without the quotes). It should run from there.

Dave

[_mmedeiros_]

Tried it and got nothing on one template and a error on a different template.

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JavaScript Error!

Error Number: 24
Error String: getCurPrefs is not a function
Lin: 11
Source: curPrefs = getCurPrefs(File
(getScriptPath().absoluteURl.replace(/Insert\.jsx/,
"Prefs.txt")));
Interpreter: CS2 (4.0)

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[_Dave_Saunders_]

That suggests that you've lost part of the script. The getCurPrefs call is right there in the script but I don't see the function, so the error message is spot on.

Dave

[_mmedeiros_]

Here is the problem-O

it works perfectly in CS2. same script. Maybe CS3 did something to the template so the script can't work?

[_Dave_Saunders_]

If that script, as posted, works on CS2, then you have a magic CS2. The getCurPrefs function is missing. The script, as posted, cannot work.

Dave

[_mmedeiros_]

Here the script is again... Don't know what to say? it works in CS2

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//DESCRIPTION: Use to insert date/time into document.

if (app.documents.length == 0) { exit() }
insertDTs(app.documents[0]);

function insertDTs(aDoc) {
var curPrefs = aDoc.characterStyles[0].extractLabel("dtprefs");
if (curPrefs == "") {
// Doc has no prefs; use saved prefs
curPrefs = getCurPrefs(File(getScriptPath().absoluteURI.replace(/Insert\.jsx/, "Prefs.txt")));
} // end if curPrefs
var prefParts = curPrefs.split("\n");
if (prefParts[2] != "[None]") {
insertIt(aDoc, prefParts[0], prefParts[2]);
}
if (prefParts[3] != "[None]") {
insertIt(aDoc, prefParts[1], prefParts[3]);
}

function insertIt(aDoc, formString, cStyleName) {
var formStrings= ["Day, Month, Year"]
var theFuncs = [dayMonthYear]
var charStyleStrings = aDoc.characterStyles.everyItem().name
if (indexOf(charStyleStrings, cStyleName) < 1) { return } // style not found or is No Style
var func = indexOf(formStrings, formString);
if (func < 0) { return } // requested form not recognized
var dateString = theFuncs[func](new Date());
app.findPreferences = app.changePreferences = null;
aDoc.search("", true, true, dateString, {appliedCharacterStyle:cStyleName});
} // end insertIt

function dayMonthYear(date) {
date.setDate(date.getDate()+1);
// returns dayName, monthName date, year
var myDateString = date.toLocaleDateString();
myParts = myDateString.split(" 0");
if (myParts.length != 1) {
myDateString = myParts[0] + " " +myParts[1];
}
return myDateString.slice(0,-5) + "," + myDateString.slice(-5);

}


function indexOf(array, find,offs) {
for( var i = offs == undefined ? 0 : offs; array.length > i; i++ ) {
if( array==find ) {return i}
}
return -1;
}

function getScriptPath() {
// This function returns the path to the active script, even when running ESTK
try {
return app.activeScript;
} catch(e) {
return File(e.fileName);
} // end try
} // end getScriptPath

} // end insertDTs

[_mmedeiros_]

Hey you wrote this script! wow... I guess you wrote the magic script!

[_mmedeiros_]

Ok - no magic - it must be my error, I just don't know what I'm doing - any help would be great! - I tried to go to your old website but it's not up?

[_Theresa_Verburg_]

Just a thought...
Rather than using the script, why don't you try just adding the date/time using the text variables that are built in to CS3?
It's under Type > Text Variables > Insert Variable(s)...
You could add it to your template and not have to worry about it.

Good Luck!
TJV

[_mmedeiros_]

The script is much better from what I can tell. It give you more control - you can enter future dates next weeks or next day. Is it possible to do this with Insert Variables?

[_Dave_Saunders_]

Like I said last night. The script doesn't work on CS2. I just fired it up and ran it against CS2 and, no surprise, it gives the error on line 11 that getCurPrefs is not a function.

You have no chance of getting this version of the script running.

It does look like one of mine, although I have no recollection of it.

Oh wait. I think this script is supposed to be run after the setup script. The setup script sets the dtprefs label and so the absence of the function is usually never a an issue.

You probably got it by downloading:

http://pdsassoc.com/downloads/DateScripts.zip

except that this version you're posting is a cut down version of the DateTimeInsert.jsx script (perhaps an early version). The getCurPrefs function is present in the real script.

Dave

[_mmedeiros_]

That link ( http://pdsassoc.com/downloads/DateScripts.zip ) no longer works? - yes you are the author!

[_Dave_Saunders_]

Works for me.

Dave

[_mmedeiros_]

Your site won't load too? http://www.pdsassoc.com

maybe have someone else test it.

[_Dave_Saunders_]

That also works for me and I'm accessing it through optimum online here in NJ and it's hosted by Powweb in CA (I believe).

Dave

[_Theresa_Verburg_]

Hi Dave:

I tried to get to your site several different ways and I couldn't connect to it either. Your blog site still works fine, but PDS Associates is not connecting.

Thanks!
TJV

[_Dave_Saunders_]

Thanks for trying, Theresa, and I'm really puzzled. I have no special connection to it and yet it works for me.

Oddly, getting through to this forum has been a challenge for me. I am getting frequent failures to connect here and yet I have no trouble with anywhere else.

I wonder if it has something to do with all this fancy caching that every service provider seems to be indulging in these days.

Dave

[Peter Kahrel]

No problem connecting to your site from the other side of the pond.

Peter

[_Dave_Saunders_]

Thanks Peter.

Dave

[Larry G. Schneider]

Works here in CA too.

[_mmedeiros_]

I was able to download the script and connect to your site. - Still having trouble getting the script to work in CS3 on a MAC?

[_Dave_Saunders_]

They are CS2 scripts, you know. Did you put them in the Version 4.0 Scripts folder?

Dave

[_mmedeiros_]

Yes but I think the text file your set up script makes is not linking correctly?

[_Dave_Saunders_]

This is getting boring. It works for me. Are you following the instructions properly? Did you read the PDF?

Dave