Use script and Grep to creat unique hyperlinks

[roba75280674]

I'm new to scripting and was wondering if it would be possible to creat unique hyperlinks based on a grep?

I have an indesign file with lots of six digit item numbers. Can I grep for \d{6} and create a hyperlink like google.com/123456 with that number as the anchor text? The digits are unique but the base URL is the same throughout (In this example google.com/).

I was trying with AppleScript but if the number repeated then the script failed.

Any help is is much appreciated.

Thank you

[Liphou]

Bonjour roba,

Regarde -> Create hyperlinks with script, without big increases to size and processing reqs of resulting PDFs?

voici :

#target "indesign-12.064"  // CC2017
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
var doc = app.activeDocument;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '\\d{6}';
var objs = doc.findGrep();
for (var i = 0; i < objs.length; i++) {
//
    var currTarget  = objs;
    var lnkDest = doc.hyperlinkURLDestinations.add("http://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Application.html");
    var lnkSrc = doc.hyperlinkTextSources.add(currTarget);
    var lnk = doc.hyperlinks.add(lnkSrc, lnkDest);
}
alert('Processed '+objs.length+' hyperlinks');

cet exemple est tiré du lien cité plus au il fonction.

[roba75280674 · Accepted solution]

I think I solved it with this:

var myDoc = app.activeDocument; 
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; 
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\d{6}-.{2}"; 
var myFound1 = myDoc.findGrep(); 
count = 0 
for(k=0; k<myFound1.length; k++) 
{ 
try{ 
var myFind = myFound1;
var myFound = (myFound1.contents);
var classNo = myFound.split("-");
var myHyperlinkSource = app.activeDocument.hyperlinkTextSources.add(myFound1) 
var myHyperlinkURLDestination = app.activeDocument.hyperlinkURLDestinations.add("https://www.apexprd.org/scripts/webtrac.wsc/Wbsearch.html?xxmod=AR&xxactivitynumber="+classNo[0])  
var myHyperlink = app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.add(myHyperlinkSource, myHyperlinkURLDestination, {name: myFound1.contents+count++}) 
count++ 
}catch(e){} 
} 
alert(count/2 + " occurencces is changed")