Adobe Illustrator Tags

Question

I have noticed the tags object is available to the document object, the pageitem object. Does anybody use these, and is there an example of using the 'tag' which someone would be willing to share for common knowledge of this obscure scripting asset?

Answer 1

Hi SV, here you go, select a couple of objects before running
// tag usage, carlos canto
// https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1710632
var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var sel = idoc.selection;
for (j=0; j<sel.length; j++) {
    var pgItem = sel[j];
    pgItem.name = 'selection ' + j;
    var itag = pgItem.tags.add();
    itag.name = "myPageItemTypename";
    itag.value = pgItem.typename;
//alert(pgItem.tags.length);
$.writeln ('document tag count ' + idoc.tags.length + '\n----------------------');
for (i=0; i<idoc.tags.length; i++) {
  var itag = idoc.tags[i];
  $.writeln(itag.name);
  $.writeln(itag.value);
  $.writeln(itag.parent.name);
    $.writeln(itag.parent.typename);
  $.writeln("----------------------------");
alert('done');