set conditional text

[Suzan_V]

Hello All,

well, i'm dealing with huge number of inDesign files and the client wants to translate specific pages  and to do that i have to set all text in excluded pages to be conditional text.

and that takes a lot of time from me to go through pages and select every text frame in excluded pages and set it to conditional text.

so i'm thinking if possible to do it with scripting method for ex.

• run the script on file
• create conditional text style with name (Hide)
• put pages numbers that contains text need to be conditional text for ex (1,3,4,7,8,9,10) to the created style
• then save

i hope that it can be done because it will save a lot of time for me, and any help will be more highly appreciated really

PS: text in table should be conditional text too if it exists in excluded pages

Thanks in advance

Cheers

Suzan

[Suzan_V]

i'm thinking to edit the below script to apply conditional text (Hide) based on pages number instead of paragraph styles, but unfortunately i failed

applyCondition();  
function applyCondition(){  
    var myParaStyle = 'Test';  
    app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myParaStyle;  
    var found = app.documents[0].findText();  
    var c = 0;  
    while(c < found.length){  
        found.paragraphs.everyItem().appliedConditions = app.documents[0].conditions.item('Hide');  
        c++;  
        }  
    } 

[Suzan_V]

any hint why this code doesn't work to me?

app.documents[0].pages[3].allPageItems.appliedConditions = app.documents[0].conditions.item('Hide');

i created a new condition with name "Hide" then tried to apply it on all items on page 3. can some one help please!

[Manan Joshi]

Hi Suzan,

Conditions can be applied on text and not on pageitems, so you will have to do something like the following

app.documents[0].pages[3].textFrames.everyItem().texts.everyItem().appliedConditions = app.documents[0].conditions.item('Hide'); 

-Manan

[Suzan_V]

Hi Manan,

really i couldn't find enough words to express my appreciation to your kindly help, you made my day and saved me from huge manual work

your modification works great like magic but there are still two missing points don't work well and that's my fault for not mentioning them.

1. the code doesn't apply on overset text
2. and doesn't apply too on the text frames that are grouped with other

please can you help about that, i will be more appreciated

Thanks in advance

Cheers

Suzan

[Suzan_V]

and just one more thing, the code applies on only one page

what about if i need to put a range of pages like from 1 to 10

or

specific pages like 1,4,6,8,9

i'm sorry if i'm bothering you with my questions but please forgive my curiosity

Suzan

[Manan Joshi]

Hi Suzan,

The overset and grouped issue can be resolved with the following

for(var i = 0; i < app.documents[0].pages[0].allPageItems.length; i++)
    if(app.documents[0].pages[0].allPageItems.constructor.name == "TextFrame")
          app.documents[0].pages[0].allPageItems.parentStory.texts.everyItem().appliedConditions = app.documents[0].conditions.item('Hide');

-Manan

[BarlaeDC]

Hi Susan,

For specific pages you could take the code mentioned above and just wrap it in a loop, and define an array of the pages you want it to be applied to. For Example:

var pagesToApplyTo = [ 1, 4, 6, 8, 9];

for ( var i = 0; i < pagesToApplyTo.length; i++)

{

     app.documents[0].pages[pagesToApplyTo]..... // I haven't copied all the code, but hopefully you get the idea

}

The above code would apply your change to each of the pages in the pagesToApplyTo array.

( I am investigating the other questions you have)

Hope this helps

Malcolm

[Suzan_V]

Hi Malcolm,

BarlaeDC​

THAT IS MAGNIFICENT , and works great for me. i appreciate your support for this part really.

Hi Manan,

Manan Joshi​

as always and said before you saved my day , you did the missing points right.

i'm thanking both of you again and again. can someone please merge the final two codes because i couldn't and don't know why . still beginner .

Suzan

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Here you go with a merged code

You will get a prompt on running this code, for individual pages use the string in the format

1,2,4,8

For a range of pages use

1-5

var pgRange = Window.prompt("Enter the page Range")
var pglist = []
if(pgRange.indexOf("-") != -1)
{
    var temp = pgRange.split("-")
    for(var i = temp[0] ; i <= temp[1]; i++)
          pglist.push(i)
}
else
    pglist = pgRange.split(',')
for(var j = 0; j < pglist.length; j++)
{
    var index = pglist - 1
    for(var i = 0; i < app.documents[0].pages[index].allPageItems.length; i++)
          if(app.documents[0].pages[index].allPageItems.constructor.name == "TextFrame")
              app.documents[0].pages[index].allPageItems.parentStory.texts.everyItem().appliedConditions = app.documents[0].conditions.item('Hide');
}

P.S. :- Have not added to much error handling, like mixing the string formats will not work. But if you stick with one format at a time it should work just fine

-Manan

[Jongware]

Nice! But change those lines 3..9 to this single one

pgRange = pgRange.replace(/(\d+)-(\d+)/g, function(a,b,c) { a = b; b = Number(b); c = Number(c); for (b++; b<=c; b++) a+=','+b; return a});

so you don't need to worry about mixing ranges, such as '1-5,8,12-15' -- this gets translated to '1,2,3,4,5,8,12,13,14,15', and you can split on the commas afterwards.

[Manan Joshi]

Excellent [Jongware], i just looked up to know that replace can take a function as an argument as well. Quite neat

-Manan

[Suzan_V]

Manan Joshi​ YOU ARE THE MAN

and thanks Jongware for your brilliant touch

Kindly regards for all who helped.

Cheers

Suzan

[MiodragZ]

I have silimilar request and I think it would be usefull for original poster as well. Ofcourse I am talking about post translation scripting. Anyhow, could you please make a script that will make visable "conditional text" "styles" that are marked as hidden (not visable)?

Thanks.