Update Text Insets in Doc

[carlm80163462]

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone knows if there's a similar call to UpdateBook() for a doc? I'm looking to update the text insets within a document, but the FM documentation seems to be telling me this is only possible to do if the doc is stored in a book.

Thanks,

Carl

[Mike-Hardy]

I've no experience of this, but there are some pointers to things that should work. I'm working from the C-library FDK. I believe I've correctly translated between its terminology and the ExtendScript terminology, but if you get problems, check the Scripting Guide for FrameMaker.

You can loop through the text insets in a document, calling UpdateTextInset() on each. This is what I would do.

You could instead try to update the text insets automatically when you open the file:

• the document has a DontUpdateTextInsets property:
  • True if FrameMaker product doesn’t automatically update text insets when it opens the document
• each text inset has a TiAutomaticUpdate property:
  • True if the inset is updated automatically.
  • TiAutomaticUpdate has no effect if the document’s DontUpdateTextInsets property is set to True
• the openParams you can pass to Open() have an UpdateTextReferences property:
  • DoUserPreference: update text insets if the document property, DontUpdateTextInsets, is False.
  • DoYes: update text insets.
  • DoNo: don’t update text insets.

[frameexpert · Accepted solution]

You should be able to do something like this:

#target framemaker
var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
// Loop through the text insets in the document.
ti = doc.FirstTiInDoc;
while (ti.ObjectValid () === 1) {
    ti.UpdateTextInset (); // Update the inset.
    ti = ti.NextTiInDoc;
}

Rick

[carlm80163462]

Excellent, thank you gentlemen! UpdateTextInset() is what I was looking for.