Add a Search Function within Layers panel for InDesign?

Hi novattoi98195528 ,

in InDesign you could name objects on the active spread in the Layers Panel.

There is no search function for getting the named objects, e.g. to select* them, but that could be scripted.

FWIW:

*The scope of the Layers Panel is only the active spread. Never the whole document.

*There are restrictions what can be selected in one go.

Examples: You'll never be able to select a rectangle outside of a group plus one inside of a group at the same time. You'll never be able to select some text plus a rectangle on the page at the same time. You'll never be able to select guides of the spread plus anything else on the spread. Etc.pp.

The other way to identify objects and select a whole class of objects on the active spread will be a script that comes with every InDesign installed: SelectObjects.jsx

A scripter could change that script, so that only objects on a given layer, e.g. the active layer, will be selected.

Or that all categories in the UI of the script are disabled by default.

Also consider Object Find/Change where you could look for distinct properties of objects.

Apply object styles to the found objects perhaps or change other things.

Regards,
Uwe