[JS]How to get storyUID?

[K159]

Hi.

I can get a graphicFrameUID.   "app.selection[0].id"

But I want to get the storyUID.

Get as a "[app.activeDocument.stories.item(i).id] // [write mode : app.selection[0].parent.id]" but I want the storyUID of the selected textFrame.

Is there any way?

Thanks.

[Jongware · Accepted solution]

A TextFrame does not 'own' a story, it's more the other way around. You are probably looking for a textframe's parentStory: app.selection[0].parentStory.id (when the selection is a textframe).

Which, obviously, means that for one continuously threaded story, all of its textframes will have the same story id. Whether or not that is a problem depends on what you need it for.

[TᴀW]

What is that panel? Is that an SDK thing?

[Jump_Over]

looks like TreeView plug-in...

[TᴀW]

Never heard of it.

[Pickory]

Looks like a mangled version of the SnippetRunner plugin from the SDK.

P.

[Vamitul]

app.selection[0].parentStory.idmlComponentName

[Pickory]

I often get hold of the story by accessing the lines within the text frame.

...

if ( theLine.parent.constructor.name == "Story" )

...

P.

[wckdtall]

I did not know about constructors, and was about to use idmlComponent name and search in order to determine if a page was a master spread. Thanks for this!

[K159]

This panel is SnippetRunner of the SDK sample.

Thanks all.