Hi all Scripters,
If I suppose a very simple situation: 1 doc, 1 story, the first footnote beginning at 1, I can imagine It could be simple to insert a label to each footnote, the label corresponding to its real number (as its index+1 … but I'm not interested by playing with the "index").
I'm totally new about the "label" feature. If I understood well it, I could do "maths" with it!
In the code below, I've inserted the number "18" as label to the first note and, in the alert, I've added "15". So the result is "33"! as expected!
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myNotes = myDoc.stories.everyItem().footnotes.everyItem().getElements();
var myNote = myNotes[0];
var X = 18;
var myX = String(X);
myNote.insertLabel("Obi-wan", myX);
alert(Number(myNote.extractLabel("Obi-wan"))+15); // = 33! 😉
At this step, my simple question is:
How could I write code to insert this number "before" (or after) the corresponding footnote character?
No idea! 
Thanks in advance!
(^/)
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Hi Obi-wan,
sorry again. That was a big, big lapse on my side.
Don't know how this could happen:
I linked to the right property storyOffset and wrote about documentOffset, which is dead wrong.
So my answer above should read:
Hi Obi-wan,
Footnote Objects have the property storyOffset.
That's an insertionPoint object.
That insertionPoint has an index property with a value, that denotes its position in regards of its parent, the story.
To add contents before the footnote you simply do this:
...myFootnote.storyO
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Thanks Uwe! 
About adding contents "after", the code works cool! I'll use it in my project!
… but the code about adding contents "before" doesn't work and I can't find info about "documentOffset"!!!
More questions:
My deal is to add a label to some footnote markers and insert its value after it, as here, for the notes 1 & 2:
Can I make a kind of "link" between the value label defined by the script and the number inserted in ID, as:
"Hey ID, this "number" i've inserted in the text is the label of a footnote! If its value [the value of the footnote label] changes, you'll be very cool to change the "number" too!"
I mean that if the numbering changes, can I "update" this "number"?
Here, it could be easy to fix it because the "number" is just "after" the footnote marker, but, in reality, it won't be!!!
In the same way, could I give a label to a "character" in text?
Thanks in advance!
(^/)
Uwe,
I corrected it before answering but it doesn't work for me! 
About "Label" limitation not to text, grrr!
About the formatting, when I add "after", I have the "footnote marker" style applied: good!
When the deal is finished, this marker becomes "invisible" by a grep style! Good too!!
So, it's totally OK for me!
Thanks Uwe!
More explanations later when I'll be more advanced on my project!
(^/)
Hi Peter,
Yeap! 
It's my personal bible now + your great book (Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript - O'Reilly Media read thousands of times now!)
+ :
InDesign ExtendScript API (11.0)
Adobe InDesign CS5.5 (7.5) Object Model JS: FootnoteOption
As I said to Uwe, I found nothing about "documentOffset" and it doesn't work for me!
As usual, without knowing it, maybe you gave me a way to answer to my question:
Use text anchors! whose name is the footnote label calculated by the script!
If the script recalculates the label (= footnote number), I'll only need the cross-references to be updated!
[ … More explanations later about this new baby! 
]
(^/)
Hi Uwe,
You are totally forgiven and I should have corrected myself!
… I'm too concentrate on the script globally!!
(^/)
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