Hi,

Sure it is, however, it's basically consisting in placing library item, editing item, replacing ( or updating* ) item, removing placed content.

Quite time consuming but still quicker than manual operations.

I wrote a snippet that you need to set for your own needs :

function updateAllAssetsInLib ( lib )
{
          var libAssets = lib.assets.everyItem().getElements(), libAsset, placedAsset, doc = app.activeDocument;
  
          while ( libAsset = libAssets.pop() )
          {
                    placedAsset = libAsset.placeAsset ( doc );
                    placedAsset = placedAsset[0];
  
                    // do your stuff;
  
                    libAsset.remove();
                    lib.store ( placedAsset );
                    placedAsset.remove();
          }
}
 
 
updateAllAssetsInLib ( app.libraries.itemByName ( "foo.indl" ) );
 

Hope it helps,

Loic

*Pretty sure there is a "update library item" that you can call with meanuAction.invoke() but recently it disappeared from my UI to the point I started wondering if I had dreamed about it.

No I don't think you can check at link status while asset is in the library.

@Uwe Thanks, I feel safer now However, I don't know if it's a bug. I used it intensively ( invokinbg the update ). And then it really vanished from the UI, the contextual menu just doesn't display the command any longer. I had to modify my script in order to place asset, edit placed item, store edited item, remove former asset. That's dumb but it's all I have left

Hi Dick,

Yes, it's "normal"; To be complete the snippet should include the asset name

function updateAllAssetsInLib ( lib )
{
          var libAssets = lib.assets.everyItem().getElements(), libAsset, assetName, placedAsset, doc = app.activeDocument;
  
          while ( libAsset = libAssets.pop() )
          {
 
 
assetName = libAsset.name;       
                    placedAsset = libAsset.placeAsset ( doc );
                    placedAsset = placedAsset[0];
  
                    // do your stuff;
  
                    libAsset.remove();
                    lib.store ( placedAsset, {name:assetName} );
                    placedAsset.remove();
          }
}
 
 
updateAllAssetsInLib ( app.libraries.itemByName ( "foo.indl" ) );