When there is no selection, how can I obtain all paragraphs and table cells in the document?

[dublove]

If no objects are selected, all text Frames in current document will be processed.

I have two targets:
    1. Text paragraphs outside the table.
    2. Cells inside the table.
How can I get them?

Like this:

obj.texts[0].appliedParagraphStyle)=parStn;
obj.texts[0].tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().texts[0].appliedParagraphStyle = bodyParStn;

This is my code above.
It seems that it can only go up to this point: alert(“here”);
There is no response below that.

    var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
    var myStory = myDocument.stories;
    for (var s = 0; s < myStory.length; s++) {
        alert("here");
      var what = "^.";
        var res = getGrepSearch(what, app.activeDocument);
        for (var f = 0; f <res.length; f++) {
            var obj = app.selection[f];
...
}
}

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Text paragraphs outside the table.

Cells inside the table.

var p = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements()
var c = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().getElements()
alert("An array of " + c.length + " cells in this document")
alert("An array of " + p.length + " paragraphs in this document not included in tables")

[dublove]

It's better to use variables instead of this method, otherwise it will be too long.
I was thinking about your function yesterday. I now have five scenarios, each with independent code, which is a bit long.

[dublove]

I suddenly realized that I chose table and text, and constructor.name is also “Text”.
So how can I distinguish it from pure text?

[rob day]

If no objects are selected 

In your first post you wrote there is no selection

[dublove]

I now use this method to distinguish between them:

f ((
    (app.selection[0].constructor.name == “TextColumn”)
    || (app.selection[0].constructor.name == “Text”)
    || (app.selection[0].constructor.name == “TeStyleRangle”))
    && ((app.selection[0].texts[0].tables.length > 0)
        || (app.selection[0].texts[0].Rectangles.length > 0)))
 {
    selTextTable();
}

[Laubender]

@dublove said: "… So how can I distinguish it from pure text?"

Hi, in this context a table is "stored" as a special character.

From the context of a found table you can get that special character through its first insertion point, that is expressed by the property storyOffset of a table.

Thus the special character is myTable.parent.characters[ myTable.storyOffset.index ] .

// Table selected:
var myTable = app.selection[0];

// Select the special character that contains the selected table from above:
app.select( myTable.parent.characters[ myTable.storyOffset.index ]);

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[dublove]

Hi Laubender.

I don't think you understand what I mean. This is too complicated.

maybe, is it  like this?

c = app.activeDocument.stories[0].tables.everyItem().cells

[rob day]

This is too complicated.

What is making it complicated— in your post title you write there is no selection, but in your last post you have 3 text frames selected. If there is a selection you have to test what it is, which does make it much more complicated.

[dublove]

Hi Rob Day.
I tested it.
This works:

var c = app.activeDocument.stories[0].tables.everyItem().cells;
Sorry, I may not have explained it clearly.
What I mean is:
When I select a text box, my goal is to select the entire article (the entire stor

[dublove]

When no object is selected:

    var t = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables;
    var g = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().allGraphics;
    alert(t.length);
    alert(g.length);

The result of alert(t.length) is correct.
It outputs 3, which is indeed the number of tables.

However, alert(g.length) seems to be incorrect, as there are three graphs.
The output is 2.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Watch out for the difference between an Array and a Collection, they are similar but not the same—allGraphics returns an Array, while pageItems returns a Collection:

//allGraphis is an array not a collection
var g = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().allGraphics
//pageItems is a collection not an array and can be converted 
//to an array by adding everyItem().getElements()
var pi = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().pageItems.everyItem().getElements()

alert("Story 1 has " + g[0].length + " graphics")
alert("All document stories have " + pi.length + " page items")

[dublove]

Hi rob day.

If I select a framework, what are all the frameworks linked to it called?
Is it called a story?
How to represent paragraphs (p) in a story and cells (c) in a table?

[rob day · Accepted solution]

If I select a framework

So there is a selection? If so:

//make sure there is a selection
try {
    //the parent of a text frame’s text is a story
    var s = app.activeDocument.selection[0].texts[0].parent

    //all of the paragraphs in the selection
    var p = s.paragraphs.everyItem().getElements()
    //all of the cells in the text’s tables
    var c = s.tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().getElements()
    alert("An array of " + c.length + " cells in this selection")
    alert("An array of " + p.length + " paragraphs in this selection not included in tables")
}catch(e) {
    alert(e)
}  

[dublove]

When selecting a frame, point to the entire article.
I still used yours, as parent can accurately lock the relationship.
Mine sometimes misleads to other unrelated affected areas.

[rob day]

Also, you can get the pageItem’s graphics, which is a Collection:

var g = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().pageItems.everyItem().graphics.everyItem().getElements()
alert(g.length)

[dublove]

Hi rob day.
Thank you very much.

I can use .parent to look up the parent.
Can I look down to the child? 

See what relationships are included in a certain layer.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Can I look down to the child?

No—there’s no child property

You can get the object’s properties—this gets the first pageItem’s properties as a text list

var p=app.activeDocument.pageItems[0].properties.toSource(); 
alert("Properties:\r" + p)  

[dublove]

Hi Rob Day.
It seems that one scenario has been overlooked.

When no object is selected, how can we indicate that we want to retrieve images outside of the text box?

[rob day · Accepted solution]

You can get all of the document’s graphics—this is an array not a collection:

var g = app.activeDocument.allGraphics
alert("An array of " + g.length + " graphics")

[Laubender]

Hi @dublove ,

for a deeper understanding of Collection vs Array ( with getElements() ) read into:

On ‘everyItem( )’ – Part 1
by Marc Autret, June 30, 2010

https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2010/06/on-everyitem-part-1

On ‘everyItem( )’ – Part 2
by Marc Autret, July 19, 2010

https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2010/07/on-everyitem-part-2

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )