Run script from command line

[HugoTW]

Greeting all,

What I am trying to do is to force InDesign to open a jsx file directly. It seems not working either using command line tool or opening jsx file directly. The error message is captured as below image.

Can anyone please advise the best way to trigger a script file from command line? The reason to do so is that the jsx file is generated dynamically by hardware.

Thanks in advance!

Best,

Hugo 

[Steve Werner]

Ask in the InDesign Scripting forum. I'll move your messge there now.

[Sunil Yadav]

You can't just open .jsx file into indesign application. If you want to execute jsx, you can call jsx from vb script, and call that vbscript from command line.

[Sunil Yadav · Accepted solution]

Try this,

This is command line argument,

wscript.exe D:\SunilY\Test\vbScript.vbs

This is my vbScript.vbs

Set myInDesign = CreateObject("InDesign.Application.CC.2017")
dim myArray, myString
myTestJavaScript = "D:\SunilY\Test\test.jsx"
myInDesign.DoScript myJavaScript, 1246973031

[HugoTW]

yadavs92328

Thanks! It works like a charm!

[manjur14637599]

Saved my life

[Sohum21815629kzif]

What is 1246973031 in the VBScript?

[Kasyan Servetsky]

What is 1246973031 in the VBScript?

By Sohum21815629kzif

It's enumeration — the 2-nd parameter of the DoScript command — Language: the language of the script to execute.
This number is equivalent to idJavascript.

[samy@123]

where can we get that  wscript.exe

[Nguyet Luu]

Hello, can I ask for one more  thing?

How can I do if my .jsx need to pass agurments? And I still can't find the solution for this

[Kasyan Servetsky]

See an example here.

Also, you can use app's scriptArgs property to send arguments via doScript (withArguments parameter).

Here's an example of using it for all three languages: JS, AS, and VBS.