[CS3][JS] Return first page for story

Question

I'm bogged down trying to find a simple way to return the number of
the first page that a particular story appears on, assuming that it
is placed on a page and not all overset. Or the number of the page
that the first word in the story appears on, or something like that.
Can anyone help a beginner?
Noel

Answer 1

> myStory.textContainers[0].parent.name
This will not work if the frame is in a group (which most of the time is not the case, so it probably doesn't matter). But just in case, the following method will reliably find the correct page, but is not necessarily the most efficient, depending on the number of pages in the document.
>var myFrame = myStory.textContainers[0];
var myPage = GetPageOfFrame(myFrame);
var myPageName = myPage.name; // the page's folio, a string
var myPageOffset = myPage.documentOffset; // the nth page of the document, a number
function GetPageOfFrame(theFrame)
]for (var p = 0; p < app.documents[0].pages.count(); pi++)
]]var myPageItems = app.documents[0].pages[p].allPageItems;
for (var pi = 0; pi < myPageItems.length; p++)
]]]if (myPageItems[pi] == myFrame)
]]]]return app.documents[0].pages[p];
There's a another method to deal with frames in a group (or group of groups), which involves a recursive handler to keep looking at the parent of the parent, etc, but the one I use is flawed in certain circumstances so I use this one when reliability is important.