Get FindChange query data

[ddarz4u]

Hi Experts,

I want to get all the saved queries in Find/Change.
Query names and their query data, i.e replace text, find text...etc
Only thing I could find was IFindChangeOptions but it does not have classes related to queries.

Can you please help me.

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Hello ddarz4u​,

I also could not find any way in the C++ sdk to get this list. It seems this is not meant to be accessible by a direct api call. However i have a way to achieve what you need, the custom queries are saved as XML files, you can parse these files and then load a particular query(could not find a C++ sdk to do the same directly). So you could traverse the folder location where the custom queries are saved, use it to get the list of all the queries(file name is displayed in the File Change dialog). The you can parse the XML file to set the appropriate interfaces to make the find change query, and execute it. Let me know if you find a direct API to load query as present in the JS api, alternatively you could call the JS code from C++ plugin.

Look at the load queries section in the following URL to get the locations at which the custom queries are saved

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/using/find-change.html#find_change_items_using_queries

Hope this helps.

-Manan

[Alo Lohrii]

Manan is right, there's no straight api to load the query names, it's a manual work. But once you get the IDFile queryXMLFile, load query with command

kFCQueryXMLReaderCmdBoss

InterfacePtr<ICommand>queryCmd(CmdUtils::CreateCommand(kFCQueryXMLReaderCmdBoss));
InterfacePtr<ISysFileData> sysFile(queryCmd, UseDefaultIID());
sysFile->Set(queryXMLFile);
CmdUtils::ProcessCommand(queryCmd);

Then you can use IFindChangeOptions to get the options data, example:

InterfacePtr<IFindChangeOptions>pFindChangeOptions((IFindChangeOptions*)::QuerySessionPreferences(IID_IFINDCHANGEOPTIONS));
WideString findString = pFindChangeOptions->GetFindString(IFindChangeOptions::kTextSearch);
WideString replaceString = pFindChangeOptions->GetReplaceString(IFindChangeOptions::kTextSearch);

[Manan Joshi]

Thanks for the insight Alo, i missed the command (the chm search has its own idiosyncrasies )

[Pickory]

Hello,

From jsx, app.loadFindChangeQuery.

P.

[ddarz4u]

Thanks Pickory​​

To get this, we should have to have query names list?

[Pickory]

Hello,

For the docs.

void  loadFindChangeQuery (queryName: string, searchMode: SearchModes)

Value	Name Description Value SearchModes.GLYPH_SEARCH Glyph search. 1181183091 = 'Fgls' SearchModes.GREP_SEARCH Grep search. 1181184627 = 'Fgrs' SearchModes.OBJECT_SEARCH Object search. 1181704819 = 'Fobs' SearchModes.TEXT_SEARCH Text search. 1182038131 = 'Ftxs'
Usage	In function void  Application.deleteFindChangeQuery (queryName: string, searchMode: SearchModes) void  Application.loadFindChangeQuery (queryName: string, searchMode: SearchModes) void  Application.saveFindChangeQuery (queryName: string, searchMode: SearchModes)