Script to create a frame with hyperlink

[#1]

Hi,

Apologies if this seems obvious, I don't know much about javascript.

I'm trying to write a script to create a rectangle with no fill on my current page, and hyperlink the frame. I managed to create the frame, but I don't understand how to hyperlink it.

Here's the bit that works:

var myDocument = app.activeWindow.activePage
var myFrame = myDocument.rectangles.add();
myFrame.geometricBounds = ["297mm", "210mm", "274.75mm", "0mm"];

How do I add the URL https://www.adobe.com/ to this frame?

Thanks in advance.

[#2]

Hi,

Apologies if this seems obvious, I don't know much about javascript.

I'm trying to write a script to create a rectangle with no fill on my current page, and hyperlink the frame. I managed to create the frame, but I don't understand how to hyperlink it.

Here's the bit that works:

var myDocument = app.activeWindow.activePage
var myFrame = myDocument.rectangles.add();
myFrame.geometricBounds = ["297mm", "210mm", "274.75mm", "0mm"];

How do I add the URL https://www.adobe.com/ to this frame?

Thanks in advance.

[#3]

Hi there,

See my answer to the following discussion, it has pieces of code that you can integrate into your script. Give it a shot

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/how-to-change-automatically-frame-with-hyperlink-text-into-h...

-Manan

[#4]

Thank you for your reply.

I don't really understand how Javascript works, so I really couldn't figure out what to extract from your comment.

However, I got a friend to help and eventually came up with this which worked:

var myDocument = app.activeWindow.activePage;
var myFrame = myDocument.rectangles.add();
myFrame.geometricBounds = ["297mm", "210mm", "274.75mm", "0mm"];

var myURL = "https://www.adobe.com"; 

var source = app.documents[0].hyperlinkPageItemSources.add(myFrame);
var dest = app.documents[0].hyperlinkURLDestinations.add(myURL);

app.documents[0].hyperlinks.add(source, dest, {name:myURL});

[#5]

Sorry to resurrect this thread - I thought it was working well, but I've realised that if a similar hyperlinked frame already exists on another master page, the code won't work: "This name is already in use by another object - Source: app.documents[0].hyperlinks.add(source, dest, {name:myURL});"

My understanding is that my code searches the entire document for a frame to add the hyperlink to, rather than the active page, but I don't know how to specify that. I tried "myDocument.hyperlinks.add(source, dest, {name:myURL});" but that doesn't work either. Sorry if it's really obvious!

[#6 · Accepted solution]

Two hyperlinked frames can't have the same name. Setting "name:myURL" multiple times would cause this error. You can get around it by not setting the name, or by setting a custom name based on the frame's id, or a counter method, etc. 

app.documents[0].hyperlinks.add(source, dest, {name:myURL + "_" source.id});

[#7]

Thank you! 

Your line of code was just missing a '+' before source.id it seems, now it works perfectly.