@vandy88 – you could look at the "storyOffset" property of all tables. That gives you a different "insertionPoint" object for every Table. Take the Index number of that "insertionPoint", subtract 1 and you have the Index for the Character that represents the table in the story.

Then you could move that character with the "move()" method to an anchored TextFrame, if that is what you want.

Here an example with one text frame that holds one table (and nothing more) in an InDesign file:

var d=app.documents[0];
var myTableCharacter = d.stories[0].characters[d.stories[0].tables[0].storyOffset.index-1];
 
var newTextFrame = d.textFrames.add({geometricBounds:[0,0,100,100]});
myTableCharacter.move(LocationOptions.AFTER,newTextFrame.texts[0].insertionPoints[0]);

Hope, that gives you an idea.

Uwe

@vandy88 – in theory you could use the GREP search for the task to identify the special character that represent a Table object in a Texts object.

The special character that represents a Table is "\u0016". But unfortuantely it seems, that it's not supported by the UI or the scripting alternative of Adobe GREP. (Correct me, if I'm wrong. I tested with InDesign CS5.5 7.5.3)

Say, for example, we have one single Table in the document and the text frame that holds the Table is selected, the following code snippet results to "0":

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\u0016";
 
var myTableCharacters = app.selection[0].texts[0].findGrep();
 
$.writeln(myTableCharacters.length);
//Result: 0

Wheras a regEx (in contrast to the Adobe GREP) can identify a "\u0016" in the contents of a Texts object.

Select the text frame with the Table and run the following code:

var myContents = app.selection[0].texts[0].contents;
var myRegEx = /\u0016/;
 
myRegEx.test(myContents);
//Result: true

The result is "true". The special character is identified…

Uwe

@Peter – I know that :-).

It's just interesting to know, that in the case of Tables (and their special characters' representation) a GREP search is not working…

Uwe

Oops. Forget my last comment about MultiStateObjects. With

app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem();

you relly get all the stories, even those in ALL states of the MultiStateObjects.

Just tested.

Uwe

@Peter – Ah! That's really a very, very good one!!!
Thanks a lot!

Uwe

@Jongware – yeah, might be. But why?

Nonetheless, if you do a Text Search with "<0016>" you easily can get the Table object of its found character representation:

app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "<0016>";
var tableCharacters = app.documents[0].findText();
 
//The first Table that the Text Search has found:
$.writeln(tableCharacters[0].texts[0].tables[0]);

Uwe