Ticket numbering in InDesign

[Kyle Thornton]

I have a client that I create tickets for professional dance competitions and there are (for example) 49 tables each with 14 seats. Is there a way to create a script to number like this? It is printed at the top and bottom of each ticket.

[S Hopkins · Accepted solution]

I can remember doing a script similar to this. It would be helpful to know if you want the script in ExtendScript or AppleScript and if the tables are identified by name or label ("table1", "table2", etc.). I assume numbers will be consecutive starting with "table1" through "table49".

[Kyle Thornton]

I am just learning about scripts so I am not sure which one to use. It would be Table 1 Seat 1 in consequtive order!

[AS Scripter]

-- You can use something like this to get a list of all the different labels.

-- From there, it depends on how your InDesign document and frames are set up

set numTables to 3

set numSeats to 5

set theLabels to {}

repeat with t from 1 to numTables

  set theTable to "Table " & t

  repeat with s from 1 to numSeats

  set theSeat to "Seat " & s

  set theLabels to (theLabels & (theTable & " " & theSeat))

  end repeat

end repeat

return theLabels --> {"Table 1 Seat 1", "Table 1 Seat 2", "Table 1 Seat 3", "Table 1 Seat 4", "Table 1 Seat 5", "Table 2 Seat 1", "Table 2 Seat 2", "Table 2 Seat 3", "Table 2 Seat 4", "Table 2 Seat 5", "Table 3 Seat 1", "Table 3 Seat 2", "Table 3 Seat 3", "Table 3 Seat 4", "Table 3 Seat 5"}