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First of all, it is verry uncool, if you ask your questions in multiple forums. Feel free, to choose only one forum for your questions (see also your hyperlinks-thread) 
It seems that you posted my code here. As I told you at hds, it is always a good idea to provide some examples, before / after. It is not clear what "should be in a new Text Field" means and why you need that.
Hey Kai,
Nice to see you here. I am very sorry to have offended you. While it's perfectly obvious that I shouldn't crosspost code-things, it seriously didn't occur to me in the heat of the moment. I apologize. I won't do it again.
And after one of the busiest few days I've had in a long long while, I can follow this up with an example. As I don't do the content of the boxes, I work with a lot of example and Llorem ipsum. I'm just doing layouts. So you'll have to make do with silly text everywhere, I'm afraid.
Let's say I have this.
And then I run my script. The script does its thing and this should be the outcome.
The settings on that table are TableStyle = "RedTable" and the text wrap is set to "Wrap around bounding box". Basically, I would be happy if the new text frame with the table inside it would float somewhere outside the text frame it came from. Basically, in sight of where it was found or something.
I even had time to fidget around some code earlier today and I came up with this. This generates two text boxes for some reason.
app.activeDocument.textFrames.add ();
var myFrame = app.activeDocument.textFrames.add ();
myFrame.geometricBounds = ["30pt", "30pt", "300pt", "200pt"];
I suspect it has to do with the two 30s in there, but if I remove those, the code goes bust. I also fail to get the content from the textframe with the main text into the newly created textframe.
A quick answer to this part:
The Gothamite wrote:
Also, I don't understand where I create the second text frame there. According to me, I create only one where I give the four reference points needed for a text frame to be created. Where exactly are the bits that make a second frame? And how do I get it to no longer create a second frame?
... where you did this:
This generates two text boxes for some reason.
app.activeDocument.textFrames.add (); #1var myFrame = app.activeDocument.textFrames.add (); #2
Capisce? 
I haven’t the time, to investigate here further, sorry. As a script beginner, it needs much more time for me, than a pro would need for that. So maybe others could dive in here or you must investigate in a paid-script.
What I have so far:
1. To get the position of the frames, I would anchor them at the first position of the current found (and maybe release them later)
2. To have more control of the position, the next version of the script assumes a objectStyle "Marginalien" with custom anchored settings
3. There a two ways to bring your table in the anchored frame:
a) Create your table first and move the table to the new textFrame >> Did not know how to do that, since I had serveral problems with the index
b) Create the textframe first, move the found to the new frame and convert then to table >> In this case I’m wondering why I get no index issues, but it worked
// das aktuelle Dokument
var curDoc = app.activeDocument;
// die aktuelle Auswahl
var curSel = app.selection[0];
// die Sucheinstellungen zurücksetzen
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
// die Sucheinstellungen setzen
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "(\\|.+\\r)+\\|.+";
var result = curSel.findGrep( true );
// eine Schleife durch die Fundstellen
for ( var f = 0; f < result.length; f++ ) {
// die letzte Fundstelle
var curResult = result
; var iP = curResult.insertionPoints[0];
var newTf = iP.textFrames.add({geometricBounds: [ 0, 0, "30mm", "80mm"]});
newTf.appliedObjectStyle = curDoc.objectStyles.itemByName("Marginalien");
var newContent = curResult.move(LocationOptions.AFTER, newTf.insertionPoints[0]);
// Fundstelle in Tabelle konvertieren
var curTable = newContent.convertToTable("|");
// Erste und letzte Spalte löschen
curTable.columns[0].remove();
curTable.columns[-1].remove();
// Tabelle wieder an Textrahmen anpassen
var tFrame = curTable.parent;
var fWidth = tFrame.geometricBounds[3] - tFrame.geometricBounds[1];
curTable.width = fWidth;
// Erste Zeile in Kopfzeile wandeln
curTable.rows[0].rowType = RowTypes.headerRow;
// Tabellenformat zuweisen
curTable.appliedTableStyle = "Redtable";
// vorsichtshalber Abweichungen vom Tabellenformat löschen
curTable.clearTableStyleOverrides( true );
// den Whitespace säubern
app.findGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "_\\.\\s|\\s+$|^\\s+";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "";
curTable.changeGrep();
}
app.findGrepPreferences = null;
For own interest:
It would be great, if someone could show me on a simple example, how I can add a frame before a given table and move the table (or the paragraph that holds the table) to that frame. At the moment I get a warning here, something like: You cannot move the content to the same position.
Thanks
kai
I think I can help you with at least pointing you in a direction with that one. I have found a commandline that moves something from somewhere to somewhere else. I have very little idea of how it works, but it does as I have moved around things using that thing.
var myParagraph = myTextFrame.paragraphs.item(0);
var myDestinationTextFrame = myDestinationPage.textFrames.add(undefined, undefined, undefined, {geometricBounds:["30mm", "50mm", "200mm", "170mm"]});
myParagraph.move(LocationOptions.atBeginning, myDestinationTextFrame.parentStory);
Basically, at this point in my horribly broken and completely unusable piece of junk script, I create the table, assign the style, clear the cells and then move the created table to that textfield. Does that help at all? EDIT: Also, I read somewhere that InDesign doesn't like it when you're trying to move all text in a textframe. I haven't tried that one out yet, but I can believe it.
Also, yes, of course. I see now where I created the second text frame. I feel stupid now. As an excuse, I present this: I was too focused on the numbers. 
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