Placeholder text replacement script help

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  But you can create the object with the text in Illustrator and save it in format I. Then place the file HAVE anywhere where you need the object placeholder. When you need to make changes, change the Illustrator object and text and it will be replaced in InDesign overall.

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  I'm trying to put together a script that loops if all pages in an indesign file, search all text frames label caption1, caption2, caption3... (whenever you get to a new page, the number of text images label starts again from 1) and add a placeholder in the text data fusion: caption1, caption2, caption3... but this time, when you get to a new page the number continues to go... caption4, caption5 and so on.

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  myDocument var = app.activeDocument;

  -SOURCE DATA CALLS FUSION

  main();

  main() {} function

  myDataSource var = File.openDialog ("Please select a datamerge source", "text files: * .txt");

  If (myDataSource! = null) {}

  myDocument.dataMergeProperties.selectDataSource (myDataSource);

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  }

  }

  -MERGE OF DATA FIELD

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  fields var = myDocument.dataMergeProperties.dataMergeFields;

  for (var f = 0, l = fields.length; e < l; f ++) {}

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  }

  }

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  }

  THE TEXT - ADD PLACEHOLDER DATA MERGE

  var countFrames = 1;

  for (i = 0; i < myDocument.pages.length; i ++) {/ / TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES in the DOCUMENT}

  var capPerPage = 1;

  for (x = 0; x < myDocument.pages [i].textFrames.length; x ++) {//COUNT TEXT TOTAL IMAGES PER PAGE

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  } ElseIf (.textFrames [x] myDocument.pages [i] .label == 'caption' + capPerPage) {//IF IT IS A TEXT LABEL of IMAGE 'caption1' EXECUTE

  var captionString = "caption" + countFrames;

  var myTextFrame = myDocument.pages [i] .textFrames [x];

  var myDataMergeProperties = myDocument.dataMergeProperties;

  var myTextFrame.parentStory = monarticle;

  var myStoryOffset = myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints [-1];

  var myNamePlaceHolder = myDocument.dataMergeTextPlaceholders.add (monarticle, myStoryOffset, get_field (captionString, myDocument)); ADD DATA FUSION TEXT HOLDER TO THE TEXT BLOCK

  countFrames ++; INCREASE THE NUMBER TO ADD DATA FUSION TEXT PLACEHOLDER FOR THE NEXT BLOCK OF TEXT

  capPerPage ++;

  }

  }

  }

  Hello

  To verify this change (replace for...) loop)

  var countFrames= 0, currLabel, capPerPage;
  
  for (i=0; i
  Notice countFrames starts at 0.
  Jarek
  		   

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