Load/Import text variables

lf.corullon  wrote … Do you know the best approach to my next goal: "import" layers and it's pageItems from the source doc to the target.

Only a hint: You cannot use method move() for layers to transfer layers from document A to document B.

You would need to move pageItems from doc A to doc B and assign a layer through its itemLayer property.

Also see into app.clipboardPreferences.pasteRemembersLayers if you choose to select(), copy() and pasteInPlace() the items.

Maybe it's best to do a new thread on this.

Regards,
Uwe

It was what I feared.

I'll need to list all the text variables, and then the type of each one, and then the properties of each type of each of them?  My god... I just don't know how to start this.

I found this snipet from Tomaxxi:

if(app.documents.length > 0){
  var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
  var myVariables = myDoc.textVariables;
  var myVariablesTable = ["Index","Name","Type"];
  var rowCount = 1;
  for(var i = 0; i < myVariables.length; i++){
    myVariablesTable.push(String(myVariables.index));
    myVariablesTable.push(String(myVariables.name));
    myVariablesTable.push(String(myVariables.variableType));
    rowCount++;
  }
  var myTextFrame = myDoc.pages[0].textFrames.add();
  myTextFrame.geometricBounds = [20,20,250,300];
  var myVariablesTbl = myTextFrame.insertionPoints[0].tables.add();
  myVariablesTbl.columnCount = 3;
  myVariablesTbl.columns.item(0).width="15mm";
  myVariablesTbl.columns.item(2).width="90mm";
  myVariablesTbl.bodyRowCount = rowCount;
  myVariablesTbl.contents = myVariablesTable;
  myTextFrame.fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);
}

It creates a list of index, name and type of each textVariable, but not the properties.

To list the properties I need to loop thru the types and then read the properties for each one?

Any help will be appreciated.

My goal: update all textVariables in the current document from the source one.

My next goal: do the same with layers, that doesn't have a native load option in InDesign.