This bugs me too! InDesign could eliminate a lot of monkey work for us if they'd listen to their customers.
I wrote this simple script. It works - but it opens a specific book. I also assigned a keyboard shortcut to it. (I still have to dock the panel once the book opens; but at least the script does 90% of the monkey work for me.)
// create a new file object
var bookFileObject = new File("/D/bookName.indb"); // full path (path + file name)
// open book
var bookFile = app.open(bookFileObject);
This bugs me too! InDesign could eliminate a lot of monkey work for us if they'd listen to their customers.
I wrote this simple script. It works - but it opens a specific book. I also assigned a keyboard shortcut to it. (I still have to dock the panel once the book opens; but at least the script does 90% of the monkey work for me.)
// create a new file object
var bookFileObject = new File("/D/bookName.indb"); // full path (path + file name)
// open book
var bookFile = app.open(bookFileObject);