Making tables in Indesign with Applescript

[khunter-tsm]

Hi,

I am working on a script for InDesign and apart of the script involves creating a table.  Everything is working well, except for the creation of my table.  I think I may have missed a few steps along the way.  Can anyone help?  The scripting guide states that a table can be created at an insertion point of a story.  I think this is the part that I am missing.

I tried to create a text frame and then insert the table into the text frame.  When I enter the following code from the reference guide, I get an error. 

tell insertion point -1

set myTable to make table

set column count of myTable to 3

set body row count of myTable to 3

end tell

Thanks in advance!

[S Hopkins]

Hi,

You can get a reference to an insertion point using (1)  reference to an insertion point in a story; or (2) using the selection list object:

(1) reference to insertion point in a story

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2017"

  tell document 1

  tell story -1

  set insPt to insertion point 1

  end tell

  tell insPt

  set myTable to make table with properties {column count:3, body row count:3}

  end tell

  end tell

end tell

(2)

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2017"

  set selList to selection

  if class of item 1 of selList is insertion point then

  set insPt to item 1 of selList

  tell insPt

  set myTable to make table with properties {column count:3, body row count:3}

  end tell

  end if

end tell

[manic_sanjiv]

Check this link to create a table

CREATE A TABLE IN INDESIGN USING JAVASCRIPT