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Script to select links only in the panel

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
April 10, 2024
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Hey guys.
I need help selecting links in the panel. Is there any script (or can someone help me create it) so that I can select the links in my document only in the links panel? And I also need the script to select only links that have a piece of the indd file name in their name.
Ex:
My indesign file has the name: "teste_name.indd"
My links have names:
test_name_img1.jpg
test_name_img2.jpg
test_name_img3.jpg
img_10
img_11

Then, the script will select only the links in the panel ((because these files (in the panel) are the ones whose name is the same as the file name.))
can anybody help me?
I could only think of this, but it doesn't work:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
for (var d = doc.links.length-1; d >= 0; d--) {
     var link = doc.links[d];
     app.select(link);

     }

can anybody help me? I would need this script to add to another larger one that I am creating.
Exemple in image.

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DTPtutorialyCZ-L.Zalesky

Inspiring

Well, always is the way...

I am not scripter but..... scripters can use this approach:

Select your links in link's panel, then script will generate captions, and will group captions with links (Frame on page). Then script will search links name in this captions frame and delete whole group. So I bet, this is possible 🙂

Convince me it's not possible 🙂

Yt/DtptutorialyCZ

rob day

Community Expert

Select your links in link's panel,

There's no method in the scripting API that will get the panel's selected links. If there are linked objects on a spread that have been selected, then yes.

rob day

Community Expert

After Link is selected - Invoke can be used.

Maybe @eusoujpg can confirm, but I don’t think there is a selection in the Links panel—the script needs to make the selection of a range of items.

By @rob day

If you select few items on the list - this will return list of selected links:

Copy Info for Selected Links

Panel Menus:Links

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But there is a problem - it will return just the name of the file - with path if you enable it in options.

Solution with generating Captions is correct - will create captions for ONLY selected instances:

If you select few items on the list - this will return list of selected links

But there is no selection @eusoujpg wants to script a the selection

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

As already mentioned script rarely has any capability like selecting objects to do anything on the native panels. So you will need to let us know what you want to do after selecting the items we could explore the possibility of acheiving that.

-Manan

rob day

Community Expert

Hi @eusoujpg , If by select you mean you want to select the items in the Link panel’s list (not select the linked assets on the pages), that can’t be done via scripting

brian_p_dts

Community Expert

What do you want to do with the link after you select it? Do you want to manipulate its parent frame, or something else? You can't select across multiple spreads, so just selecting, even as an ADD TO SELECTION would not work. To test the name of the indd doc against the link name, you could try the following:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var nm = new RegExp(doc.name.replace(/\.indd$/i,""),"i");
for (var d = doc.links.length-1; d >= 0; d--) {
     var link = doc.links[d];
     if (nm.test(link.name) { 
        //do something with link. link.parent would get its frame
     }
}

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eusoujpgAuthor

Known Participant

these links will be relinked to another local folder. It's just a way to automate, as the other links that I didn't select will be relinked by other files.

brian_p_dts

Community Expert

If you want to relink to another folder, then use my snippet above and in the comment block, try something like:

link.relink(File(someFolder +"/" + link.name);

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