"indesign-9.064" is undefined!

[SimonLinden]

I have just updated to InDesign CC 2017. Previously I used inDesign CS 6 and started my scripts with "#target InDesign;" and it worked fine. Now when I try to run these scripts my computer wants to open the old installation of InDesign instead of running the script in the CC 2017 version which is already open. I googled this and discovered that I should now add '#target "indesign-9.064"' to the start of my scripts instead. Unfortunately this doesn't help - all I get is the error message in the title of this question: '"indesign-9.064" is undefined!'. Any ideas on what I should do to run my scripts in InDesign CC 2017? I'm on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.

Another related question. When I open the scripts panel in InDesign and right click a script to edit it in ExtendScript Toolkit it automatically opens the old CS6 version of the toolkit. How can I set it to automatically open in the newest version instead?

[SimonLinden]

I discovered that: #target "indesign-12" seems to work for my version of InDesign. Does this mean I need to update these scripts overtime I update to a new version of InDesign?

[Laubender]

Hi Simon,

no. At least not necessarily…
Why do you think, you need the target directive at all?

Without target directive:
If you run your script from the Scripts panel of InDesign the target is automatically the InDesign version you are working with.

Regards,
Uwe

[SimonLinden]

Hi Uwe, thanks for your suggestion. When a script is finished I will usually run it from the panel so it's good to know that I don't need the target for that reason. But while I'm working on the script and need the debugger I usually run it from the toolkit. I guess I do need the target directive in those cases?

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

You can also "connect" to your target without a target directive by using the functionality of the ESTK:

Changing target without using #target …

Regards,
Uwe

[SimonLinden]

Great! I didn't know that. I don't really have that much knowledge of the ESTK. Thanks for pointing it out to me!

[Laubender]

Well, don't forget to read the help PDFs under ESTK's Help menu:

ExtendScript Toolkit ReadMe

Adobe Intro To SCripting

JavaScript Tools Guide CC

Regards,
Uwe