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1. Navigation Points Not Available to Scripting in InDesign 2021 (16.0)

   Problem Description:
   Querying navigation points inside a movie trigger errors from InDesign 16.

   Steps to Reproduce:
   1. Query movie.navigationPoints.length or movie.navigationPoints.count() with Extendscript.

   The following script shows this issue(s) with simple document containing a move and one button with a play at navigation point action applied.

   var btn = app.activeDocument.buttons[0];
   var beh = btn.behaviors[0];
   var mov = beh.movieItem;
   var navPts = mov.navigationPoints;
   try{
   alert(navPts.length); /doesn't exist/
   }catch(err) { alert([err,err.line])}

   try{
   alert(navPts.count()); /*Give incorrect error - Error: Request failed because the underlying functionality is no longer available in the current version of the application */
   }catch(err) { alert([err,err.line])}

   alert(navPts.everyItem().getElements().length); /incorrectly says zero, when there are 2 navigation points/

   Actual Result:
   Each produces two separate errors.

   Expected Result::
   Both should be valid queries.

   Any Workarounds:

   No. Expected functionality is simply missing.

   movie.navigationPoints.everyItem().getElements().length at least doesn't produce an error, but it also doesn't include navigation points.

   This feature was added back to InDesign, but the scripting of it was neglected. I've filed a bug in prerelease as well. Posting here so others are aware.

   Problem Description:
   Querying navigation points inside a movie trigger errors from InDesign 16.

   Steps to Reproduce:
   1. Query movie.navigationPoints.length or movie.navigationPoints.count() with Extendscript.

   The following script shows this issue(s) with simple document containing a move and one button with a play at navigation point action applied.

   var btn = app.activeDocument.buttons[0];
   var beh = btn.behaviors[0];
   var mov = beh.movieItem;
   var navPts = mov.navigationPoints;
   try{
   alert(navPts.length); /doesn't exist/
   }catch(err) { alert([err,err.line])}

   try{
   alert(navPts.count()); /*Give incorrect error - Error: Request failed because the underlying functionality is no longer available in the current version of the application */
   }catch(err) { alert([err,err.line])}

   alert(navPts.everyItem().getElements().length);… more

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   FIXED  ·  AdminRavi Kiran (Senior Lead Quality Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

   The fix for this issue is available in the latest InDesign release 16.2.1
   Please update to this latest version to get the fix.

   —
   Adobe InDesign team