Move text frames to a separate layer

[sundar_r]

I am new to Indesign scripting. I have an simple task, which needs your help.

Task: I want to move all the text frames which contains a particular swatches applied to the content. I had wirtten the below script, but it's not working. The execution get finished without errors, but the result in nothing happened.

var mydoc=app.documents.item(0);

var mytexts=mydoc.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();

for (i=0;i<mytexts.length;i++) {

    var mytext=mytexts;

    if (mytext.contents.fillColor=="swatches"){

    mytext.parentTextFrames.everyItem().itemLayer=mydoc.layers.item("test");

    }

}

Hope you experts will rectify this.

Thanks much in advance

[-hans-]

Hi,

you've gone to far 😉 'content' is always the end of the road ... the pargraph itsself has got the property fillColor

...  
  if (mytext.fillColor.name  == "mySwatchName"){...

But, what if the paragraph has  more then one fillColor¿ You'll only get the first in use.

If important for your work -> think about doing a search.

Hans-Gerd Claßen

[rajnikids]

hi sundar,

i tried,,

var mydoc=app.documents.item(0);

var mytexts=mydoc.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements( );

for (i=0;i<mytexts.length;i++) {

    var mytext=mytexts;

    if (mytext.fillColor.name  == "blue") {

   mytext.parentTextFrames.everyItem().itemLayer=mydoc.layers.item("blue layer");

    }

}

but the error message is.  mytext.parentTextFrames.everyItem is not a function. highlighting the above boldened text. can you help on this

[sundar_r]

Yes you're right!.