Script to open particular page in multiple documents

[MrZZY]

Is there a way to have each open InDesign document display the same page? I've seen something similar for book files, but the programming was beyond me and I think that was to do with the complexity of book files rather than having, say, 15 InDesign documents open and wanting to check the first, second, or final page each.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Hi @MrZZY , This would set all of the open documents’ active page to the front document’s current active page:

var d = app.documents
var ap = d[0].layoutWindows[0].activePage.documentOffset;
for (var i = 1; i < d.length; i++){
    if (d[i].pages[ap].isValid) {
        d[i].layoutWindows[0].activePage = d[i].pages[ap]
    }
};

[MrZZY]

Can't thank you enough Rob. That works perfectly! I often have to check specific pages in up to 24 documents at a time and it's so handy being able to chain through them with the "next document" shortcut, this cuts out that step every time 🙂