How to use appliedConditions in a Indesign script

[JJ_Cloutier]

I am attempting to write a script which completes a series of auto-transalation for series of flyer we convert to bilingual.  I am very new to javascripting. I am have having uses understanding how appliedConditions is used/coded to work.

- This what I drafted up.  (Both the Character style and Condition are already in the document created either thrua script or the styleif copy tot eh document.)

- I am using GrepPreferences vs TextPreferences because later on I have GREP searches to complete.

app.findChangeGrepOptions = null;

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '(?i)Assorted SKUs';
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = 'Pigiarniq - Bold';
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = 'ᐊᔾᔨᒌᙱᑦᑐᓂ ᓈᓴᐅᑎᓖᑦ';
app.changeGrepPreference.appliedConditions = ['DoNotTranslate'];

app.activeDocument.changeGrep();

I get error number 55

thank you in advance

[Manan Joshi]

You have a slight typo in your code, you have a missing s. Use the following

app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions = ['DoNotTranslate'];

In the document you should have a condition DoNotTranslate present, then i don't get any errors.

-Manan

[JJ_Cloutier]

Manan,

thank you - clearly end of day on friday not the best time for my dyslexic brain - thank you so very much 🙂

JJ

[JJ_Cloutier]

Follow up

I now need to apply just the condition to text without the replacing of the text and it not working

function grep_reset(){
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = true;
app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
}

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '\$\d\d*,*\d+\.\d\d';
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions = ['DoNotTranslate'];
app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
grep_reset();

can you enlighten me as to what I goofed up this time?

[Manan Joshi]

On first look it seems a problem with escaping the grep string. Use the following it should work

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '\\$\\d\\d*,*\\d+\\.\\d\\d';

-Manan

[Laubender]

Hi JJ_Cloutier,

if you want to test an expression like:

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat =

Simply execute the command and then switch to InDesign's GREP Find/Change panel to see what exactly happened.

This one executed:

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '\$\d\d*,*\d+\.\d\d';

will yield this result:

This is an easy way to debug your GREP Find expressions.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )