HyperlinkPageItemSources

I am scripting InDesign CS3 using VB Script in the MS Windows environment.
My objective is to add Hyperlinks to images so exported PDFs expose the links. The images are each placed in a table cell.
I can not determine the correct use of the HyperlinkPageItemSources.Add method syntax.
***** CODE IN QUESTION *******
Set oCell = oRow.Cells.Item(intCellNum)
oCell.InsertionPoints.FirstItem.Place ("ImagePath\FileName")
Set oRectangle = oCell.AllGraphics.FirstItem.Parent
' the next line gets Run-time Error '13': Type mismatch
Set oHyperlinkPageItemSource = oDocument.HyperlinkPageItemSources.Add(oRectangle)
Set oHyperlinkURLDestination = oDocument.HyperlinkURLDestinations.Add("http://www.desired_link.com")
Set oHyperlink = oDocument.Hyperlinks.Add(oHyperlinkPageItemSource, oHyperlinkURLDestination)
***** END OF CODE IN QUESTION *******
I believe oRectangle (Dim oRectangle As InDesign.Rectangle) is an InDesign PageItem which I believe is the requirement for the .Add method.
Is this a bug or does my code need correcting?
Any help appreciated. Thank you.

Well, nice idea but not a solution.
I got the same problem with VB and CS5. I try to do something like that:
Dim mInDesign As InDesign.Application
Dim mPub As InDesign.Document
Dim mHyperlink As InDesign.Hyperlink
Set mInDesign = GetObject("", "InDesign.Application.CS5")
Set mPub = mInDesign.Documents.Item(1)
Dim mRectangle as InDesign.Rectangle
'REM - rectangleID is a Long parameter for this function and is a valid rectangle ID
Set mRectangle=mPub.Rectangles.ItemById(rectangleID)
Dim mHysperSource As InDesign.HyperlinkPageItemSource
Set mHysperSource = mPub.HyperlinkPageItemSources.Add(mRectangle)
Dim mDestination As InDesign.HyperlinkURLDestination
Set mDestination = mPub.HyperlinkURLDestinations.Add(mDocObj.rs.fields(mQuellDBField).Value)
Set mHyperlink = mPub.Hyperlinks.Add(mHysperSource, mDocObj.rs.fields(mQuellDBField))
mHyperlink.Visible = True
Well, the bold underlined line of code creates error 13 - type mismatch!
No mather what I am trying to use mRectangle.AllPageItems.Item(1), mRectangle.PageItems.Item(1), mRectangle.AllGraphics.Item(1) - still no success
Watching the variable shows mRectangle as Variant/Object/Rectange and mRectangle.AllGraphics.Item(1) as Variant/Object/Image
The Image is a JPEG Image....
Any suggestions how to get Hyperlinks working with Rectnagle? (I cannot use TextFrame with InsertionPoint... it is Rectangle and I cannot change it)
Regards
Jarema

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February 3, 2014
Written by Kasyan Servetsky
http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua
e-mail: [email protected] */
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Mark

Laubender wrote:
I wanted to point out and asking, if you made sure a proper Destination for hyperlinks were created by testing this part of your code and looking up the Destination in the GUI.
Uwe
I can't test the GUI since the code never gets past the line
Dim myHyperlinkSource = aDoc.HyperlinkPageItemSources.Add(rect)
That said, the URLs work fine if I place them in separate cells. I'm pretty sure that the problem is simply the choice of objects here, but I can't figure it out.

Script not finding hyperlink source

Extract to epub fails on hyperlinks and I have a problem trying to find and get rid of them. The hyperlinks only show up in story editor. I made a two page test ID file to narrow the problem. It has one of the problem hyperlinks and I can't find it with a script. I'm using a script mentioned in another hyperlink post http://forums.adobe.com/message/4629362#4629362
The script is:
objHyperLinks = app.activeDocument.hyperlinks;
for (i=0; i<objHyperLinks.length; i++)
          if (objHyperLinks[i].source instanceof HyperlinkPageItemSource)
                    alert (objHyperLinks[i].source.sourcePageItem.id);
            alert('Hello World');
I have the ID source, the script source, and an image of the entire story in story editor out in Dropbox at:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/octqiftupzkfoiv/IndesignTestFile6.zip
I'm on win xp, id 5.5
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm brand new to indesign scripts so still working on getting to square one.

The -sourcepath option takes a path ending in a directory. It should not
contain "*.java" or any other file pattern. And it supplies the path to the
root directory of the package directories, not directories contain source files.
(I think it should have been named "packagepath".) It is mostly ignored\
when passing in source filenames (like *.java).
So try replacing this:
-sourcepath .\com\SteveSystems\People\*.java
with this:
.\com\SteveSystems\People\*.java
-Doug

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