CS4 JavaScript for creating an index based on paragraph style

[Guest]

I need to create an index based on a paragraph style. Essentially, where ever the paragraph style "Name" occurs in my document I would like to place an index marker which encapsulates all the contents of "Name." I  have tried this with GREP, but cannot (as far as I know) insert an index marker using this method.

I would like to create a javascript which will loop through my document and tag each instance of "Name" with an index maker, but I am too much of a js noobie to figure this out. Has anyone found a solution to a similar problem?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thx

cditcher

[Peter Kahrel]

Here are the bare bones, not much error checking. An existing index is left in place, new items are added to it.

Peter

#target indesign;

myDoc = app.documents[0];
if (myDoc.indexes.length == 0)
  myDoc.indexes.add ();
app.findGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "^.*";
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item ('Name');
myFound = myDoc.findGrep (true);
for (i = 0; i < myFound.length; i++)
  {
  try
    {
    newTopic = myDoc.indexes[0].topics.add (myFound.contents);
    newTopic.pageReferences.add (myFound, PageReferenceType.currentPage);
    }
  catch (_){}
  }

[Guest]

Thanks Peter! You've saved us all alot of work. The script works very well.

Cheers,

Chris