Script to auto answer "edits have been made" dialog when updating links.

[#1]

Hey everyone,

The lack of a "Yes to All" button when updating all links to a file is debilitating for me. I literally have to press enter almost 3,000 times for over an hour to do an "update all" on a large .xls doc (sometimes several times per day) because there is no "Yes to All" or "Ignore this Warning" option for the below dialog...

"Edits have been made to the imported version of "document name.here". You will lose these edits (with the exception of changes applied to spreadsheets through cell styles or table styles) when you update the link. Update anyway?"

All of my changes are always applied via cell and table styles, so the message doesn't even apply to me. It is a pretty infuriating waste of time for an easy "Yes to All" button addition. Adobe support seems to be a black hole for extreme use case issues like these. Could I use a script to suppress or auto answer this dialog? Maybe a universal on / off script for all user notifications might work as well? Not sure where to start.

[#2]

Hey everyone,

The lack of a "Yes to All" button when updating all links to a file is debilitating for me. I literally have to press enter almost 3,000 times for over an hour to do an "update all" on a large .xls doc (sometimes several times per day) because there is no "Yes to All" or "Ignore this Warning" option for the below dialog...

"Edits have been made to the imported version of "document name.here". You will lose these edits (with the exception of changes applied to spreadsheets through cell styles or table styles) when you update the link. Update anyway?"

All of my changes are always applied via cell and table styles, so the message doesn't even apply to me. It is a pretty infuriating waste of time for an easy "Yes to All" button addition. Adobe support seems to be a black hole for extreme use case issues like these. Could I use a script to suppress or auto answer this dialog? Maybe a universal on / off script for all user notifications might work as well? Not sure where to start.

[#3 · Accepted solution]

You could try this to update all links in a document with dialog interaction suppressed.

var currIL = app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel;
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;

var links = app.documents[0].links.everyItem().getElements();
for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
    if (links[i].status == LinkStatus.LINK_OUT_OF_DATE) {
        links[i].update();
    }
}

app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = currIL;