Best way to insert pages from a document to another

Hi everybody,
I need to append/insert pages from a InDesign CS4 document to another one with all the content that may be present in page.
What is the best way to implement that? I didn't find anything similar to kAddDocToBookCmdBoss.
The optimum would be to have something like kAddPageToDocCmdBoss for better granularity.
Thanks a lot in advance to anybody who will express his opinion.
Luca Severini

The Pages panel flyout menu has a "Move Pages..." action / dialog.
It fires off several commands:
kCreatePageFromPageCmdBoss
cmd target is the target document
UIDList is the source kSpreadBoss.
IID_ILAYOUTCMDDATA document is the target doc again.
followed by kMoveSpreadCmdBoss and kShufflePagesCmdBoss.
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I can't simply place the INDD cover file b/c it uses a text variable to pull the chapter name; this personalizes each stand-alone chapter.
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thanks!
Matt

ok here we are
I get a raw skeleton that you will have to adjust but it's functional.
Use a PDF for placement as you can specify the page that you want to place.
I don't know if you can do the same for indesign files.
So basically, it starts adding 2 pages and placeing the pdf in the same time.
After that, it creates the textVariable and the frame that will receive it.
Here you are:
//If a document is open
if(app.documents.length!=0)
var ad = app.activeDocument;
//Pages placement
for(i=0; i<2; i++)
//Add 2 pages on top of the document;
var tmpPg = ad.pages.add(LocationOptions.BEFORE, ad.pages[0]);
//Here you place your pdf
app.pdfPlacePreferences.pageNumber = i;
tmpPg.place(File(cover.pdf), false)
//You should specify page x and page y but ain't found yet the way to go.
//Text variable creation
//Check if the textVariable named "txtVar" does not already exist...
if(ad.textVariables.item("txtVar")==null)
//if not found, create the text variable named "txtVar"
var txtVar = ad.textVariables.add();
txtVar.variableType =VariableTypes.CUSTOM_TEXT_TYPE;
txtVar.name = "txtVar";
//Set the contents of the text variables to the string "test"
ad.textVariables.item("txtVar").variableOptions.contents = "test";
//these coordinates don't care aboutyour units but you may adjust them to your needs
var y1 = ad.marginPreferences.left;
var x1 = ad.marginPreferences.top;
var y2 = y1+5;
var x2 = x1+25;
var myFrame = ad.pages[0].textFrames.add({geometricBounds:[y1,x1,y2,x2]});
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myFrame.contents=ad.textVariables.item("txtVar").variableOptions.contents;
//You may want to stylize the txtVar
//In this case, either you use a existing characterStyle or you create one in the script
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Can anyone help
In Pages '08 we had the ability to copy a page from one document to another.
In Pages '09 this does not seem possible.
Does anyone have anwser....
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Message was edited by: AJCUR
OK my bad
I just realized that I was in Word Processing in one document and Page Layout in another and you cannot do the copy between the two. Changed the Blank documentto word processing and voila it worked.

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Název protokolu:Application
Zdroj:         Application Error
Datum:         22.4.2013 14:09:32
ID události:   1000
Kategorie úlohy:(100)
Úroveň:        Chyba
Klíčová slova: Klasické nastavení
Uživatel:      Není k dispozici
Počítač:       NB-CZ-1209.cz.corp.mann-hummel.com
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Název chybujícího modulu: Public.dll, verze: 7.5.3.333, časové razítko: 0x4f6b9c77
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My table looks like this:
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