#target indesign

if (app.documents.length == 0) {

   err("No documents are open. Please open a document and try again.");

}

if (app.activeDocument.links.length == 0) {

   err("The current document contains no images. Please open a document containing images and try again.");

}

var myFind, myChange, myResult;

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

var myLinks = myDoc.links;





var myDialog = app.dialogs.add({name:"Change job number", canCancel:true});

var myColumn = myDialog.dialogColumns.add();

var myPanel = myColumn.borderPanels.add();

var myLabel1 = myPanel.staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Change "});

var myText1 = myPanel.textEditboxes.add();

if (app.extractLabel("kas_myText1") != "") {

   myText1.editContents = app.extractLabel("kas_myText1");

}

var myLabel2 = myPanel.staticTexts.add({staticLabel:" to "});

var myText2 = myPanel.textEditboxes.add();

if (app.extractLabel("kas_myText2") != "") {

   myText2.editContents = app.extractLabel("kas_myText2");

}



if(myDialog.show() == true){

   var myFind = myText1.editContents;

   var myChange = myText2.editContents;



   app.insertLabel("kas_myText1", myFind);

   app.insertLabel("kas_myText2", myChange);



   for (i = myLinks.length-1; i >= 0 ; i--) {

      var myLink = myLinks[i];

      var myFile = new File(myLink.filePath);

      var myNewName = myLink.name.replace(myFind, myChange);

      if (myNewName !=  myLink.name) {

         if (myFile.exists) {

            myFile.rename(myNewName);

            myLink.relink(myFile);

            myLink.update();

         }

      }

   }

   myDialog.destroy();

   alert("Done!");

}

else{

   myDialog.destroy();

}

function err(e) {

   alert(e);

   exit();

}

I agree, this is a very awesome script!

I use a slight variation of it. We have up to a couple hundred images on an indesign document. All the image files end in AA (" AA.tif" or " AA.eps"). Then we use this script to relink to the white plate file (all ending with " WT.tif")  for each image. Some of the images do not contain white. The script works great, all the images that do not have white just leave the original front image in palce (the one that contains AA) Is there an easy way to script the removal of all the AA links? I don't want the file deleted or anything, i just need the link removed from the indesign document, so an empty box should remain where the AA file was. Right now we just manually delete these images, which is sometimes time consuming. I've looked around for ways to remove/unlink files but can't grasp how to make anything work.

//DESCRIPTION: Replace files ending in AA.tif or AA.eps that are linked images with their matching file ending with wt.tif alternates
 
 /*
   Front images have " AA" in their names; White plates have " WT.tif"
 */
 
myDoc = app.activeDocument;
myLinks = myDoc.links;
myFrontLayerName = "Front Colorbar";
myWhiteLayerName = "White Blackbar";
myBoxesLayerName = "boxes";
 
app.activeDocument.layers.item(myFrontLayerName).visible = false;
app.activeDocument.layers.item(myWhiteLayerName).visible = true;
app.activeDocument.layers.item(myBoxesLayerName).visible = false;
 
for (j = myLinks.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
  myName = myLinks[j].filePath;
  myNewName = myName.split(" AA.eps").join(" wt.tif");
  if (myName != myNewName) {
    // Original link includes " AA.eps" in name
    myNewImageFile = File(myNewName);
    if (!myNewImageFile.exists) {
     
      continue;
    }
    myLinks[j].relink(myNewImageFile);
    myLinks[j].update();
  }
}
 
for (j = myLinks.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
  myName = myLinks[j].filePath;
  myNewName = myName.split(" AA.tif").join(" wt.tif");
  if (myName != myNewName) {
    // Original link includes " AA.tif" in name
    myNewImageFile = File(myNewName);
    if (!myNewImageFile.exists) {
     
      continue;
 
 
}
    myLinks[j].relink(myNewImageFile);
    myLinks[j].update();
  }
}

I don't know javascript at all! Try replying directly to one of the posts by Kasyan because they are a genius. In the meantime would something like this work?

Kasyans script uses this for replacing the old number in the filename to the new number:

   var myNewName = myLink.name.replace("20283", "21483");

can you do something like this?

   var myNewName = myLink.name.replace("graph", "ES_graph");

I have no idea if the number or characters has to match??

Thanks for the response to this MKPETZ and Jongware

Can this script be altered for this to work. Just to add a language prefix to all linked files.

Or can it be done another way. So if we start with all linked files which have been translated and then a run a script to add the language prefix and relink at the same time.

Hi Jongware

Thanks that worked great, infact too great! I just ran it and realised I had changed all the files which had been translated and of course all the graphics that hadn't such as photgraphs etc. Is there a line that could be put in that would only change those with a mod date of today?