How to replace a color in any plan of work in illustrator by using Javascript (without selecting all objects)

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A common way is to loop through every element in the document and change its values of the background color or contour, or in the case of text, attributes of character for the fill and the outline of the text characters. This can take some time if you have many objects. In addition, if you have the color applied via the graphic styles or appearances, they are not detectable via javascript. But if you had your spot colors, you can change the values of these tasks of swatch and color will be updated in all aspects of the document, including the graphic styles, brushes, etc..

Here is an example of editing a fill for a TextBox inside a CMYK document:

#target illustrator
function test(){
    // must have cmyk document with one text frame (which contains at least one character) and one path for this test.

    // a simple function to assign the cmyk values to a cmyk color
    function editCMYKValues(affectedColorObject, c, m, y, k){
        affectedColorObject.cyan = c;
        affectedColorObject.magenta = m;
        affectedColorObject.yellow = y;
        affectedColorObject.black = k;
    };

    var doc = app.activeDocument;
    var t = doc.textFrames[0];
    var myTexFill = t.textRange.characterAttributes.fillColor;

    editCMYKValues(myTexFill, 100, 100, 25, 25);

    var p = doc.pathItems[0];
    editCMYKValues(p.fillColor, 25, 100, 100, 25);

}
test();

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