Script - Paste a TextFrame into a TextFrame

Question

Hi,
I am very new to Indesign Scripting (1 week?).  Getting stuck trying to Paste a TextFrame inside another TextFrame.  I can do it in the UI and successfully wrote a script to do this:
app.select(someTextFrame);
app.copy();
app.select(pasteIntoTextFrame.insertionPoints[0]);
app.paste();
Where someTextFrame is the TextFrame I am trying to copy into the PasteIntoTextFrame....
But, this doesn't work on InDesign Server.
Example / Reason: TextFrame1 willl be centered, Then TextFrame2 will be aligned right, TextFrame3 centered, TextFrame4 aligned right. 
Then all of these are pasted into the 'Master' text frame with its own alignment options
Hopefully the diagram will help explain my poor description.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

Answer 1

Hah -- that was quite difficult to pull off. You are correct in your observation that IDCS Server cannot use 'select', 'copy', and all other UI based commands, so you have to do it purely by manipulating the objects.
Unfortunately, all objects do have a 'move' method but ... it only can accept some page position and not an insertion point, which is what you need here. So there is no way to physically move an existing text frame into text (or, for that matter, a button, or a rectangle, line, ellipse or anything else).
But you can create a new object in-line:
mynewTextFrame = app.activeDocument.stories[0].insertionPoints[3].textFrames.add();
will create a new text frame between characters numbered 3 and 4 -- between the two letters "l" if the first word in the first story is "hello there!". Then you can move your existing text out of "someTextFrame" into the newly created frame, and copy as much other parameters as you need to it. Finally, you can delete the original frame (or perhaps move it out of the way onto the pasteboard, since you never know what you might need it for).