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Hi @Eubhal okay I see, well I'll just remove the part that tries to re-used an existing page destination and it will create a new one each time (same as your manual way). I'll leave the other script up though, because it is a better approach. So using your workflow, just select text containing one or more numbers and it will create hyperlinks for them. So you could select just the "1" or Apple 1,3,5 or the whole line to create 3 hyperlinks at once.
- Mark
/**
* @file Add Hyperlinks For Page Num
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Yes, exactly that! 🙂 It's not my file, I just have the burdensome task of linking the numbers already present to their pages. That's all they want done.
By @Eubhal
Then the easiest way would be to find all numbers in this Story - using GREP - then use the returned collection to create Hyperlinks / Cross-References.
Okay got it, @Eubhal. Here's a script that might do what you want. Select the "index" text and run it.
- Mark
/**
* @file Add Hyperlinks For Page Numbers.js
*
* Usage:
* 1. Select the existing "index" text
* - can be a text frame or some selected
* text or a whole story
*
* 2. Run script
*
* @author m1b
* @version 2025-04-25
* @discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/trying-to-make-a-hyperlinking-script/m-p/15288981
*/
function main() {
var settings = {
hyperlinkCharacterStyleName: 'Hyperlink',
}
var doc = app.activeDocument,
target = doc.selection[0];
if (
undefined == target
|| 'function' !== typeof target.findGrep
)
return alert('Please select the index text and try again.');
var characterStyle = getThing(doc.allCharacterStyles, 'name', settings.hyperlinkCharacterStyleName);
if (!characterStyle)
return alert('Could not find "' + settings.hyperlinkCharacterStyleName + '" character style.');
// clear the find/change grep preferences
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
// set the find options
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = false;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
// set the grep to search for page numbers
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '\\d+';
// perform the find
var found = target.findGrep();
for (var i = 0; i < found.length; i++) {
var text = found[i],
page = getThing(doc.pages, 'name', text.contents);
if (!page)
continue;
// remove existing hyperlink
var existing = text.findHyperlinks();
for (var j = existing.length - 1; j >= 0; j--)
existing[j].remove();
var source = doc.hyperlinkTextSources.add(text);
var destination = (
getThing(doc.hyperlinkPageDestinations, 'destinationPage', page)
|| doc.hyperlinkPageDestinations.add(page, { hidden: false })
);
// give the hyperlink a useful name
var name = text.paragraphs[0].words[0].contents,
n = 0;
// a name that won't conflict
while (doc.hyperlinks.itemByName(name + ' ' + (++n)).isValid);
// create the hyperlink and name it
doc.hyperlinks.add(source, destination).name = name + ' ' + n;
// apply the character style
text.applyCharacterStyle(characterStyle, true);
}
};
app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'Add Index Hyperinks');
/**
* Returns a thing with matching property.
* If `key` is undefined, evaluate the object itself.
* @author m1b
* @version 2024-04-21
* @param {Array|Collection} things - the things to look through.
* @param {String} [key] - the property name (default: undefined).
* @param {*} value - the value to match.
* @returns {*?} - the thing, if found.
*/
function getThing(things, key, value) {
for (var i = 0, obj; i < things.length; i++)
if ((undefined == key ? things[i] : things[i][key]) == value)
return things[i];
};
Thanks Mark! This looks great but currently I'm getting this error message with it:
By @Eubhal
Do you have hidden spreads in your document?
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