[CS3 JS] Replacing/Adding text in a table

Question

Hello professionals....
I am currently wanting to replace text within a table.
The Table has 4 simple colums. All text in the table has the same character style.
b The situation is
i Here is a short 'cut-out' of the scripting I have done:
I read in the text bthat needs to be modified from the table with this script:
> app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myRevIndexListCharStyleName;
f = myDoc.findText();
var myCurrentResponsiblePerson = f[2].contents;
var myCurrentComments = f[3].contents;
New text is set to another variable:
> var myResponsiblePersonField = textEditboxes.add({editContents:myCurrentResponsiblePerson, minWidth:myTextBoxWidth});
var myCommentField = textEditboxes.add({editContents:myCurrentComments, minWidth:myTextBoxWidth});
var myCourseRevIndexPerson = myResponsiblePersonField.editContents;
var myCourseRevIndexComment = myCommentField.editContents;
I then proceeded to to make a new 'replacement' string:
> var myCourseRevIndexList = myRevIndex+"\t"+myCourseRevIndexDate+"\t"+myCourseRevIndexPerson+"\t"+myCourseRevIndexCom ment;
return[myCourseRevIndexList]
Then I try to 'Change' the text by this:
> app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myRevIndexListCharStyleName;
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = oneResult[0];
oneDoc.changeText();
Result - InDesign Crashes...!
What am I doing wrong?
I know it has something to do with the:
> app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myRevIndexListCharStyleName;
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = oneResult[0];
Because when I deactivate this part - InDesign does
b not
crash!
Would it be better to
i somehow
replace the individual text 'cells'?
If so - how do I do that?
I have treid to read up, but have had no luck!
Help / insights would be greatly welcomed.
Thanks in advance.
Lee

Answer 1

Hello,
:) Sorry - I should have explained a little more!
btw - the linked 'pdf' file is blocked for me! Our IT department are very fussy!!! :(
b What is your main idea?
We have a 3 sided document (Title page, Content page, Release page) to present our product - Training Courses.
On each side of the document there are certain informations that are the same. To make life easy for the people editing these documents, it was decided to make a script to automate the input and changing of these informations.
Character Sytles were generated to define each field of information, so to aid in the find/Change of the scripting.
On the Title page there is the 'Course Title', 'Course Reference No.' and 'Document No.' information.
On the Content page there is the 'Course Title', 'Course Sub-Title', 'Reference No.' and 'Document No.' informations (naturally there is all the course info too, but that's a 'one-time-entry' only).
On the Release page there is all the above and a
b table
that contains the latest revision index information. i.e. Revsion Index, Date of Changes, Responsible Person, Comments to changes made.
This row of information has a Character Style and is read in.
I then searched the string and replaced each Array position with the previously entered text.
It seems to work OK for when you are creating the
b first document
My problem what I see coming is the fact that when it is needed to enter a revision - how would I
b add
another row
b and
then select only the last row of - then to be 'blank' information?
Did this help?
If it might help - here is the InDesign 'template' file that they start with:
http://www.freetimecorner.ch/joomla2/images/allsorts/course_description_end.txt
b NOTE
Change the 'txt' for 'indt'
In the script you'll have to change the address when he goes to open this file (
i in the top few lines