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myIndex.generate() returns an Array, not a Story?

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Aug 28, 2022 Aug 28, 2022

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My first serious time monkeying around with indexing, and I discovered something curious. The API states that idx.generate() returns a story, but in my code, I'm getting an Array of length 1, where array[0] is the story. Is this just an error in the documentation? Is there ever an instance where that array would be longer than 1? 

 

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Index_.html#d1e123003__d1e123278

 

My snippet: 

var tempPage = doc.pages.add();
var s = idx.generate(tempPage, undefined, undefined, false, true);
alert(s.length);
s[0].duplicate(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING, tf);
tempPage.remove();
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Engaged , Aug 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022

Take a look at the ExtendScript Toolkit's object model viewer.
It looks like an array is returned.

Index.generate (on:varies, placePoint:Array of Measurement Unit (Number or String), destinationLayer: Layer , autoflowing: Boolean , includeOverset: Boolean ):Array of Story

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Aug 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022

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Take a look at the ExtendScript Toolkit's object model viewer.
It looks like an array is returned.

Index.generate (on:varies, placePoint:Array of Measurement Unit (Number or String), destinationLayer: Layer , autoflowing: Boolean , includeOverset: Boolean ):Array of Story

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