Automating Process with Scripts

Hello all,
I am a seasoned JavaScript programmer, and am currently working on a project which requires a lot of work, and I'm hoping that the process can be automated using scripts for InDesign.
Essentially, here's what I want to do. I have a 5 (sometimes, but rarely, 4)-digit string. I then have three rectangles underneath the text frame which I would like to apply a swatch to, depending on the final digits of the number. Numbers 0-9 are assigned a specific colour (and swatch), and at the moment I am manually going through each rectangle, and selecting it according to the last two digits, and applying the swatch to all those selected.
I am convinced that it must be possible to automate the process using InDesign User Scripts, but I don't have a good understanding of this. Here's an example of how the colours are assigned to the special bar codes:
0 = red 1 = blue 2 = green ....
So for the following code: 12312, I would like the bars underneath to have the following colours:
blue red blue
(i.e. top and bottom row = penultimate digit; middle row = last digit).
Could anyone indicate to me how I might write a script which loops through the pages in my document, finds the codes, extracts the last two digits and then applies a swatch to the rectangle object, depending on the number...
I am confident that I could write something like this using regular JavaScript and HTML, but that having been said, I am familiar with the DOM in HTML...
Any help or pointers would be gratefully received!
Thanks,
Ben.

Scripting InDesign is a very different beast than scripting HTML.
I highly recommend that you download Jongware's DOM in HTML or chm format and browse through it. It'll give you a pretty good idea of the DOM structure.
http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html
app.documents[0].pages gives you a collection of the active document's pages.
app.documents[0].pages.everyItem().getElements() gives them to you as an array.
pages have a textFrames collection. You can loop through that and check the contents of each frame for your numbers.
app.documents[0].swatches.item("Color Name") gives you a swatch and a textFrame has a fillColor property.
That should be enough to get you started...
Harbs

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** Begin FDM Runtime Error Log Entry [2011-10-25 18:03:26] **
ERROR:
Code............................................. 440
Description...................................... Automation error
Procedure........................................ clsImpProcessMgr.fLoadAndProcessFile
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Version.......................................... 1112
Thread........................................... 13556
IDENTIFICATION:
User............................................. fdmadmin
Computer Name.................................... FIACTHFMTD
App Name......................................... FDMAP
Client App....................................... WebClient
CONNECTION:
Provider......................................... SQLOLEDB
Data Server...................................... fiacthfmtd
Database Name.................................... FDMAP
Trusted Connect.................................. False
Connect Status.. Connection Open
GLOBALS:
Location......................................... ABCD
Location ID...................................... 758
Location Seg..................................... 10
Category......................................... IFRS PA_2
Category ID...................................... 17
Period........................................... Aug - 2011
Period ID........................................ 2011/8/31
POV Local........................................ False
Language......................................... 1033
User Level....................................... 1
All Partitions................................... True
Is Auditor....................................... False
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      p1.rightIndent = (p1left-p0left)/2
   else
      p0.rightIndent = (p0left-p1left)/2;
catch(_){}
This one doesn't rely on a selection.
Peter

Comparing ABAP development process with Model Driven Architecture concept

My Background
I am a postgraduate student writing a Masters Degree Dissertation titled An Investigation into how compatible ERP Development Process is with Model Driven Development Philosophy: A SAP R/3 Case Study.
The aim of this project is to compare ERP system development process with Model Driven Development (MDD) and to identify whether and how they can be used together. Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is Object Management Groups (OMG) flavour of the MDD philosophy and is the paradigm that will be used here.
I have chosen SAP R/3 as my case study in order to narrow the research and want to explore the development processes/cycle involved in using ABAP/4 to reconfigure/customize SAP R/3 system during implementation.
An overview of the MDA concept according to OMG is given below. Following this, Ive provided some questions that are open to discussions.
Overview of the MDA Concept
The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is an approach to software systems development that separates the specification of system functionality from the specification of the implementation of the functionality on a specific technology platform. The MDA concept provides an open, vendor-neutral approach to system interoperability.
A recent study by the Middleware Company summarizes MDA paradigm as a development process that makes use of the following steps:
1.     Secure business requirements for an application.
2.     Develop UML diagrams for the domain model, independent of any particular technology (J2EE, Microsoft .NET, CORBA, etc). This UML model represents the core business services and components. This UML model is called Platform Independent Model (PIM) because it is completely technology-independent and will be the same regardless of whether you decided to use J2EE or .NET. You develop this UML model using UML modelling capabilities of an MDA-specific modelling tool.
3.     Build UML diagrams for the application, specific to a particular technology (J2EE, for example). This UML model will have design patterns. This UML model is called Platform Specific Model (PSM). You can build this manually, or you can generate much of it using an MDA tool and hand-tune only pieces of it that require customisation.
4.     Finally, generate the application code using an MDA tool. That is to say, instead of writing the application by hand based on the UML model, you generate the majority of it from the UML diagrams.
To develop an application using MDA, it is necessary to first build a PIM of the application, then transform this, using a standardised mapping into a PSM, and, finally, map the latter into the application code.
A mapping is a set of rules and techniques used to modify one model in order to get another model. In MDA, mappings are used for transforming:
1)     PIM to PIM. This transformation is used when models are enhanced, filtered or specialized during the development lifecycle without needing any platform dependent information. One of the most obvious mappings is the analysis to design models transformation. PIM to PIM mappings, are generally related to model refinement.
2)     PIM to PSM. This transformation is used when the PIM is sufficiently refined to be projected to the execution infrastructure. The projection is based on the platform characteristics. Describing these characteristics should be done using UML description. Going from a logical component model to a commercial existing component model is a kind of PIM to PSM mapping.
3)     PSM to PSM. This transformation is needed for component realization and deployment. PSM to PSM mapping are generally related to platform dependent model refinement.
4)     PSM to PIM. This transformation is required for abstracting models of existing implementations in a particular technology into a platform-independent model. This procedure often resembles a mining process that is hard to be fully automated. It may be supported by tools, though. Ideally, the result of this mapping will match the corresponding PIM to PSM mapping.
Questions/Discussions
1.     What specific stages are involved in development using ABAP/4? (e.g., requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding, etc)
2.     Do these stages fit into any traditional software development lifecycle? (e.g. waterfall model, v-model, etc)
3.     Which of the stages in (1) above best describes the Platform Independent Model (PIM) of the MDA concept above?
4.     Which of the stages in (1) above best describes the Platform Specific Model (PSM) of the MDA concept above?
5.     How does the Accelerated SAP roadmap relate to the MDA concept above?
6.     Assuming theres a change in business requirements of a company that could lead to reconfiguring/customizing the R/3 system, how is this achieved? For instance, if a model has earlier been developed for that particular process, how does the change in the model affect coding/modification?
7.     How is coding achieved with respect to the reconfiguration of the business models or reference models?
8.     Are all coding manually done or are there tools in the ABAP Workbench that enable codes to be generated automatically from the models of the system?
9.     How much time is spent in coding compared to developing business models like EPC models?

I've also read about the SAP Composite Application Framework (CAF).
But it seems that it's only for Java development....

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