Hi Jang, The Condition markers only appear in the document when conditions are hidden. You will want to show all the conditions and then look for text ranges (and table rows) that have conditions applied. Working with conditions is not trivial; you have to deal with condition formats as integers, for example. Do you have my FrameScript book? There is a chapter in the book that explains working with conditions. If you don't have it, there is a link to the conditions chapter on my home page (http://www.frameexpert.com). Of course, you will have to translate my 10-year-old FrameScript code into ExtendScript, but at least it will give you more understanding of the concepts involved. I would avoid using "Find" to locate FrameMaker items in your scripts. There are usually better ways to programatically find what you are looking for in a document. Rick ... View more

Better yet, you can use an array literal: var myArray = ["Item1","Item2","Item3"]; Rick Quatro ... View more

Hi Jang, Be careful here. I used FirstSelectedGraphicInDoc because I purposely wanted to get the selected anchored frame for demonstration purposes. You can't reliably predict which graphic the FirstGraphicInDoc will return. It may be your anchored frame, or it may be some other graphic in the document. In fact, a new Portrait document already has over 30 graphic objects in it before you add any content to it! Rick ... View more

Hi Jang, OK, here is what I tried. I select an anchored frame that has a text frame in it and run this code: var doc = app.ActiveDoc; var aframe = doc.FirstSelectedGraphicInDoc; var graphic = aframe.FirstGraphicInFrame; alert(graphic.constructor.name); The alert displays "TextFrame" like I would expect. You can also do this to display the Name propety of the FirstPgf property of the text frame: var doc = app.ActiveDoc; var aframe = doc.FirstSelectedGraphicInDoc; var graphic = aframe.FirstGraphicInFrame; alert(graphic.FirstPgf.Name); This works for me as well. You should post your code so we can see what might be wrong. Thanks. Rick ... View more

Hi Jang, You have to loop through the graphic object(s) in the anchored frame and test each graphic to see if it is a text frame. For example, if aframe is your anchored frame object: // Set a variable for the first graphic in the anchored frame. var graphic = aframe.FirstGraphicInFrame; // Loop through the graphics in the anchored frame. while (graphic.ObjectValid()) {   // Test to see if the graphic is a text frame.   if (graphic.constructor.name === "TextFrame") {     // Do something with the text frame here.   }   // Move to the next graphic in the anchored frame.   graphic = graphic.NextGraphicInFrame; } Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Rick Quatro ... View more

I just read Marc's posts and they were a real eye-opener. Things are still a bit fuzzy, but I am sure the concepts will get clearer as I keep working with them. Thanks for all of your help. ... View more

If I use this, I get all three tables. var tables = page.textFrames.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements(); alert (tables.length); if (page.groups.length) {     tables = page.groups.everyItem().textFrames.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();     alert (tables.length); } Obviously, I am overwriting my first tables variable inside of the if statement. Is there an elegant way to end up with a single collection of tables, realizing that one or both collections could return tables or be empty? Again, the goal is to all of the tables on the page. Thanks in advance. ... View more

Hi Theunis, OK, I am seeing this now. One of the text frames is part of a group, so it doesn't show up in the page.textFrames collection. It looks like I can use each group's textFrames collection to get the "missing" tables. Thanks for the quick response. Rick ... View more

Here is some further information about this. If I run this, it tells me that there are two text frames on the page: var doc = app.activeDocument; var page = doc.pages[54]; var pageTextFrames = page.textFrames; alert(pageTextFrames.length); // 2 If I query each text frame's id, I get this: 25823 25902 If I click in each table and run this code, I get the extra text frame id: if (app.selection[0].parent.parent instanceof Table) {     var table = app.selection[0].parent.parent;     alert(table.parent.id); } 25823 25902 25990 So, clearly there are 3 text frames on the page. But my first code only picks up 2. If I query each of the 2 text frames, each of them contains 1 table. Again, my task is to reliably get all of the tables on a particular page. Thanks. ... View more

Hi Harbs, Thank you very much. Rick ... View more

I think I figured this out. If anyone has a better way, I am open to suggestions. Thanks. function getPriceTable (tables, doc) {     var table = null;   var currBaseline = 9999;     for (var i = 0; i < tables.length; i += 1) {     if (tables.cells[0].paragraphs[0].baseline < currBaseline) {       table = tables;       currBaseline = tables.cells[0].paragraphs[0].baseline;     }   }   return table; } ... View more

I don't think this will be quite as easy to troubleshoot. My bare bones script does not duplicate the problem. In the bare bones script, I am touching every table in the document by adding 1mm to its first column width. When I undo it and rerun it, I get no errors. However, my production script does quite a bit more: it tests for a particular kind of table, and for these, it adds a table column, some content to the column, sets borders on the new column, and proportionately scales the table to the text column width. Somewhere along the line, some instability is introduced that causes the table collection to become invalid after an undo to an unsaved document state. If anyone is interested in testing the entire script, you download it here: http://www.rickquatro.com/resources/UpdatePriceTables.zip When you run the script on the document, you will prompted for a CSV file, which is included in the archive. The script looks for parts tables and updates the prices based on the contents of the CSV file. It also populates a Product Group column, which it creates if it doesn't exist in the table. Thank you very much. Rick Message was edited by: frameexpert ... View more

OK, I think I have isolated the problem condition. If I run the script right after I open the document, the script makes the document dirty. When I undo the script, the document is no longer dirty (and thus I can't revert to saved). This is where the script error occurs if I run the script again. If the document is already dirty when I run the script, and I undo it the document is still dirty. I run the script again, and there are no errors. ... View more

Thanks Markus. That is very helpful. ... View more

You are right. I had to right-click on it and choose Properties and then click the Unblock button. All is well now. Thanks for all of your efforts with this. This is a huge benefit for FrameMaker scripters. ... View more

Thanks for the update. However, when I open the chm file, the right pane says "Navigation to the webpage was canceled". The navigation elements show (Contents, Index, etc), but the right pane never updates. Thanks. Rick ... View more

Hi, Yes, you can do this with ExtendScript. One thing to keep in mind though; if your output is PDF, Acrobat can automatically convert URLs to links in the resulting PDF file. But, you can certainly do it in FrameMaker with ExtendScript (or FrameScript, if you have it). Rick ... View more

I wonder if this is just a focus issue. If you look in your taskbar, is the ExtendScript ToolKit application still running? FrameMaker 9 and 10 have a tendency to "steal" focus from other applications. For example, if I choose FrameScript > Script Window and attempt to move the mouse over the Script Window, FrameMaker 9/10's window will jump to the font and obscure the Script Window. I wonder if this is what is happening to your ExtendScript Toolkit window. Rick Quatro ... View more

Hi Marijan, This works great! Thank you very much for the quick response. But I have a question: what is the significance of the http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ namespace? How did you know what to use for this? Thanks. Rick ... View more

Hi Oliver, I am not exactly sure about this, but I think JavaScript objects are different animals than "objects" in the FDK, or FrameScript for that matter. For example, you can test if an object exists in FrameScript like this: If thisTextFrame   // Do something. EndIf In the FDK, it would be if (thisTextFrame) {   // Do something. } But with ExtendScript, you have to do this: if (thisTextFrame.ObjectValid()) {   // Do something. } So there is something different going on in ExtendScript. It may be that, while thisTextFrame and thatTextFrame refer to the same TextFrame, they are represented by two separate JavaScript objects. This may be why they are not considered equal. But when you compare ids, you get a test of true equality since ids are unique within a document. This is only a bit of speculation on my part, but maybe it will prompt someone more knowledgeable to shed light on the issue. Rick ... View more

Hi Oliver, 1) I haven't seen this yet myself, but nothing is documented very well at this point :-). 2) In the FDK, there are a couple of properties that you can set to speed up scripts in structured documents. Below is a quote from the FDK User Guide. Since ExtendScript is basically a wrapper for the FDK, I am assuming that these properties will work with ExtendScript, but haven't tested them yet. <quote>Improving performance in FrameMaker clients If you are using the API to create FrameMaker documents, you may need to add a large number of elements or element definitions at a time. By default, FrameMaker validates elements and applies format rules each time you add an element or element definition. This can decrease performance considerably. To keep FrameMaker from validating elements and applying format rules, set the FO_Session properties FP_Validating and FP_ApplyFmtRules to False.</quote> With ExtendScript, you would be referencing the app object and the Validating and ApplyFmtRules properties. You could try this: app.Validating = 0; app.ApplyFmtRules = 0; app.Displaying = 0; // More code here. app.Validating = 1; app.ApplyFmtRules = 1; app.Displaying = 1; Rick Quatro ... View more

I just did the patch and seems to have installed sucessfully. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with 12 GB RAM and an Intel processor. One thing I discovered with the beta; I couldn't install from a drive other than the C: drive. I don't know if this is an issue for either one of you, but I thought I would mention it. It didn't offer to install ExtendScript Toolkit, but this may be because I recently installed CS 5.5, which installs ExtendScript Toolkit CS5.5. I had to put the FrameMaker 10 OMV.xml in a C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Scripting Dictionaries CS5.5\FrameMaker folder in order for it to show up in the Object Model Viewer. Rick Quatro ... View more