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1. Allow Mail Merge Preview Scripting

   It would be super handy if we could make a few options available to improve the mail merge process and automation via scripting. These include:
   1. Allow the mail merge preview to be switched off and on via script
   2. Allow the data file to be refreshed via script

   I'm trying to build a script that basically turns off preview, refreshes, turns preview back on. In an ideal world this would just be a refresh button at the bottom of the data merge panel that does all this behind the scenes - that also has the ability to be called from a script, so then I can run my other scripts which refresh links/colours based on the merge all in one go.

   Oh and while you're at it, can we PLEASE do something about the Mail Merge error messages. I've seen them so many times and it slows down the save and close and really it's inconsequential. Can they have a "do not show again" option for all files.

   Please and thank you.

   It would be super handy if we could make a few options available to improve the mail merge process and automation via scripting. These include:
   1. Allow the mail merge preview to be switched off and on via script
   2. Allow the data file to be refreshed via script

   I'm trying to build a script that basically turns off preview, refreshes, turns preview back on. In an ideal world this would just be a refresh button at the bottom of the data merge panel that does all this behind the scenes - that also has the ability to be called… more

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2. Buttons are not working when a top layer is blocking it's under layer.

   Hi, buttons don't work if the layer is placed under a layer. It is like the image remains on top with 0% opacity and everything under it, is unclickable.

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3. Add `parentPage` and `parentTextFrame` of Table Cell and Row

   Please add parentPage and parentTextFrame to cell and row. Up to now it is not possible to determine, on which page or in which text frame a specific table cell/row is located.

   There is a hack with adding an anchored text frame, releasing it an reading its properties. But this is very hacky an time consuming ...
   Or I have to use insertion points inside the cells/rows to get to the parentPage.
   But this is all very clumsy.
   ( See here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/extendscript-indesign-2022-return-parentpage-s-of-last-cells-of-all-tables/m-p/12942541#M477149 )

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4. API REST calls in Scripting for InDesign

   Use scripting to contact a database through API and get a list for the data merge. If this is available already, I'm at a loss on how to implement it and would love assistance.

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5. hyphenationExceptions in Dictionary

   Hi,

   app.documents[0].hyphenationExceptions.itemByName("English: UK").name.

   It returns,

   English: USA.

   https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/hyphenationexceptions-in-dictionary/m-p/13001402#M480763

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6. Expose footnote and endnote numbers to the DOM

   Currently, footnote and endnote numbers are not exposed in de DOM, and can't be used in a script. Please expose them, so we could do stuff like this ...

               var endnoteText = myNote.texts[0].contents;
               var endnoteNumber = myNote.number;
   

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7. Add possibilty to hook into Context Menu and reciece the selected Context Menu Item

   I'm looking for a way to add custom scripts to the context menus (right click with the mouse) of the paragraph style and the character style palette.

   So the user finds the style he's looking for, right clicks on it, chooses my script, the script gets the reference to the selected style item, and runs with it.

   I asked this in the forum (in 2015), and it’s still not possible but hardly missed:
   https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/id8-js-context-menu-item-for-paragraph-and-character-style-palette/td-p/7416881

   Thanks, Tobias

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8. Upgrade XSLT enginge

   Please consider upgrading the underlying XSLT 1.0 engine to at least XSLT 2.0 (if not XSLT 3.0)! It’s a pain to be forced to transform before going into InDesign or to write clumsy (for nowadays) XSLT 1.0 code.

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9. Add all new JavaScript functions of ECMAscript 6

   Please consider an upgrade of the underlaying JS engine to a newer standard. There are many, many functionality we are missing, e.g. array.indexOf(), array.foreach(), default parameter handling in functions ... the list feels endless.
   Thanks, Tobias

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10. Determine Link of a placed document and update it when document gets modified externally
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11. Handle SpecialCharacters with unicode equivalents as normal text

    SpecialCharacters are certainly necessary in places where there is no unicode equivalent (such as AUTOPAGENUMBER) but for many characters with unicode equivalents (BULLETCHARACTER, COPYRIGHTSYMBOL), it complicates string manipulation with no benefit (that I can see).

    Example:
    mySelectionContents = app.selection[0].contents;
    alert("The current selection is when added to a string is " + mySelectionContents);
    alert("The current selection is when coerced to a string is " + String(mySelectionContents));

    If you select a single bullet character, and force the specialCharacter to a string by adding it to the alert string you get "1396862068" or "BULLET_CHARACTER" if you explicitly convert to a string. You get an error in some places if you try to use mySelectionContents as text without this explicit conversion (my specific issues is objectExportOptions.customAltText).
    If you select two bullet characters with nothing else, you get •• with no need to coerce anything.

    Requested change:
    Ideally any character that has a unicode equivalent should be removed from the "special characters" set and handled like a normal character.

    If thats not possible, when getting the contents of a text object, the behavior should be the same regardless of the number of selected character, and should return the proper unicode value and not the special character value.

    Allow specialCharacters to be a valid value for objectExportOptions.customAltText (would fix the specific issue I'm having today, but there are a few other places where I have already worked around this issue)

    If none of these is possible, as a last resort, please provide access to the function used when multiple special characters in a row are selected, so we can use the same conversion.

    SpecialCharacters are certainly necessary in places where there is no unicode equivalent (such as AUTOPAGENUMBER) but for many characters with unicode equivalents (BULLETCHARACTER, COPYRIGHTSYMBOL), it complicates string manipulation with no benefit (that I can see).

    Example:
    mySelectionContents = app.selection[0].contents;
    alert("The current selection is when added to a string is " + mySelectionContents);
    alert("The current selection is when coerced to a string is " + String(mySelectionContents));

    If you select a single bullet character, and force the specialCharacter to a string by adding it to the alert string you get "1396862068" or "BULLET_CHARACTER" if you explicitly convert to… more

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12. Can't retrieve XMP-metadata from Cloud-stored files

    Hello Adobe and hello Community,

    I'm having a problem with a Javascript I wrote to retrieve XMP metadata from linked files, that are stored in a Creative Cloud Library (Bought from Adobe Stock -> stored in a Library, because i was unable to download the files).

    Ultimately, the script retrieves the Creditline of all the linked graphics in an InDesign-file / InDesign-files in a folder by bulk processing.

    I have to accesse the XMP to retrieve the correct copyrightinfo.
    @Adobe: On Adobe Stock you guys put the information to give credit to the creator in the XMP field "Creditline" (creator - stock.adobe.com). In InDesign you cannot retrieve that field by out-of-the-box extendscript methods like: Link.linkXmp.copyrightNotice
    Please add the method to retrieve the correct field in extendscript!

    The Script I'm running works perfectly fine for links, that are located on my local drive or server but it doesn't work for Assets that are linked in the document from Adobe Creative Cloud.

    My Script looks something like this:

       if ( !ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript ){
        try{ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript');}
        catch (e){alert('Unable to load the AdobeXMPScript library!');}
    }
    
    
    var myFile = File(app.selection[0].graphics[0].itemLink.filePath);
    alert(myFile.fsName);
    xmpFile = new XMPFile(myFile.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_READ);
    var myXmp = xmpFile.getXMP();
    xmpFile.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY);
    
    
    var myPsCredit = myXmp.getProperty(XMPConst.NS_PHOTOSHOP,"Credit");
    var myDcCredit = myXmp.getProperty(XMPConst.NS_DC,'rights[1]');
    if (myPsCredit) {
        var output = myPsCredit;
    } else{
        var output = myDcCredit;
    }
    
       alert(output);
    
    
       if( ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript ){
        try{ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript.unload(); ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = undefined;}
        catch (e){alert('Unable to unload the AdobeXMPScript library!');}
    }
    

    In this line I'm getting an error:

    errornumber: 1000

    errorstring: XMP Exception: OpenFile returned false

       xmpFile = new XMPFile(myFile.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_READ);
    

    I'm reading from this, that the XMP of that file which is located in the Creative Cloud, cannot be opened.

    Is there a way for still retrieving the XMP-data from those files?

    Unless there is a way to bulk-download all the Assets from the cloud and automatically re-link them in all the files i want to check (which Adobe also does not support. You can only download one file at a time from the Creative Cloud App. Great job, well done, users are sooooo happy about that), I have to access the XMP in the Cloud-stored files.

    If there is no other way to access the needed XMP-data, please implement a fix to do so.

    Also posted here, but so far I didn't receive an answer: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/retrieving-xmp-data-from-cloud-asset-throws-error/m-p/11522046?page=1

    Hello Adobe and hello Community,

    I'm having a problem with a Javascript I wrote to retrieve XMP metadata from linked files, that are stored in a Creative Cloud Library (Bought from Adobe Stock -> stored in a Library, because i was unable to download the files).

    Ultimately, the script retrieves the Creditline of all the linked graphics in an InDesign-file / InDesign-files in a folder by bulk processing.

    I have to accesse the XMP to retrieve the correct copyrightinfo.
    @Adobe: On Adobe Stock you guys put the information to give credit to the creator in the XMP field "Creditline" (creator… more

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13. InDesign Scripting bug? Master Pageitems of specific Layer as Collection

    I want to see all 'master' page items of all master spreads on a specific layer using code like this:

    app.activeDocument.layers.itemByName('existLayerName').pageItems.everyItem().getElements();

    Even such a layer contains 'master' page items, this code always returns an empty array!

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14. Events: 'afterSelectionAttributeChanged' (LayoutWindow)

    The event 'afterSelectionAttributeChanged' (LayoutWindow) has the "Event" class, but logically its class should be "MutationEvent", since it is not clear which attribute of the object has been changed...

    The mutation event in most classes that have an addEventListener method does not work.

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15. Update Indesign script to support ES6

    Update Indesign to support modern ES6.

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17. Separate the indesign scripting forum from the indesign community support forum

    With the relaunch of Adobe's community support forums, the indesign scripting forum was merged with the general indesign forum. Please separate the two so users can find the most relevant content.

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    Partial Fix  ·  amaarora responded

    Hi,
    1. The majority of InDesign Scripting threads were merged and archived at first.
    2. After a month or so, InDesign Scripting re-appeared as its own topic in the new forums.
    3. David K. started un-archiving older threads last week, a few at a time, very slowly and by hand, because of odd server-side limitations.
    4. There is no “Direct Link” to the Scripting Topic at this time, but this ought to be fixed with the current sprint from the forums team. The internal bug number is: ALFD-1530

    While we wait for ALFD-1530, there is a backdoor way to find direct links to topics. You can follow a topic then look at your follows… or just use these links:

    • InDesign Scripting: https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/filteredbylabelpage/board-id/indesign/label-name/scripting
    • InDesign SDK: https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/filteredbylabelpage/board-id/indesign/label-name/sdk
    • InDesign Server Developers: https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/filteredbylabelpage/board-id/indesign/label-name/server%20developers

    Thanks

18. BUG - Scripting: multiple paragraph styles for multiple paragraphs in one text box not working correctly

    Paragraph styles are not being applied correctly when setting more than two paragraph styles for more than one paragraph in a text box.

    For three or more paragraphs, paragraph n is set to paragraph style n, and paragraphs 1 through n-1 are set to paragraph style n-1. The expected behaviour would be that paragraph 1 is set to paragraph style 1, paragraph 2 is set to paragraph style 2, paragraph 3 is set to paragraph style 3, ..., paragraph n is set to paragraph style n.

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19. [15.0.0.155] New property Alternate Text for Hyperlinks is not supported by Scripting, IDMS and IDML

    Hi,
    I see no new property for a new feature with InDesign 2020 version 15.0.0.155:
    Alternate Text for Hyperlinks.

    The feature is also missing with IDMS and IDML.

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender
    ( ACP )

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    Under Review  ·  amaarora responded

    Thanks for reporting the issue. We are reviewing it

    -InDesign Team

20. Bug When Overriding Master Page Items: Unexpected Shift of Master Page Objects

    When overriding page items by script, those items are unexpectedly shifted and do not stay in the x/y position, they are on the master page. This differs widely from the UI-behaviour of InDesign.

    There is a very good view and analysis of this bug from Marc Autret, which can be found here:
    http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2014/06/indesign-scripting-forum-roundup-6#hd1sb2

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