Move a selected item to a specific layer

[danielw42205661]

Hoping someone can help me with a script.

I always have a layer called "contents" in my indesign files. Sometimes I have an object on another layer that needs to be on this "contents" layer. It will speed up my process if I can script this (to assign a shortcut) so I dont have to drag the coloured dot in the layers panel to another layer. Is there a way to script this?

I saw another post with a script from Jongware but it doesn't seem to work for me. Thanks. 

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Hi @danielw42205661,

How do we identify the object that needs to be moved? If it's named then the following script should work. Here I am assigning the object with name movetf to the layer named contents

app.documents[0].pageItems.itemByName("movetf").itemLayer = app.documents[0].layers.itemByName("contents")

If there is any other criteria for choosing the object then we will have to tweak the code.

Edit:- I see you talk about selection, so if you want to move the selected object to the contents layer then the following should work

app.selection[0].itemLayer = app.documents[0].layers.itemByName("contents")

P.S.:- The code does not have any error checks

-Manan

[danielw42205661]

Thank you so much, Manan. Works exactly as I'd hoped 🙂