Changing layer names with a script in InDesign or Applescript

It's easy to rename layers via scripting, but as Obi suggests you would need to feed a script the names. So this AppleScript asks for a comma delimited list:

Renames the layers top to bottom:

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tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"

    set {t, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, {","}}

    display dialog "Layer List (comma delimited no spaces)" default answer ""

    set myList to text items of (text returned of the result)

    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to t

    set l to every layer of active document

    repeat with i from 1 to count of l

        try

            set name of item i of l to item i of myList

        end try

    end repeat

end tell

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Hi

Can you be clearer about what you want to achieve, especially why you need so many different layers?

If there is no specific reason to have that huge amount of layers, maybe you could use another import method, such as "merging data"?

Merge data to create form letters, envelopes, or mailing labels in Adobe InDesign

Could you be clearer ? Not sure I get the idea here.

Hi,

Are you able to extract a concordance list as, e.g.:

Layer_1 >> Layer_12

Layer_2 >> Layer_23

Layer_3 >> Layer_39

…

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