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Cris,

I don't know about Applescript, but in Javascript it would work like this. Suppose you have the following topics:

dog
    border collie
    mastiff
    poodle
monkey

then with the following code, step through the JS debugger:

doc = app.activeDocument;
doctopics = app.activeDocument.indexes[0].topics;
_story = app.selection[0].parentStory;

If you then type the following code in the debugger's console, line by line, it returns the values in round brackets:

doctopics[0].subtopics[0].name (dog)
doctopics[1].subtopics[1].name (border collie)
doctopics[2].subtopics[1].name (mastiff)
doctopics[3].subtopics[1].name (poodle)
doctopics[4] (monkey)

It turns out that in the pageReferences.add()function you can't specify subtopics, and there's no need. You specify main topics and JS picks the lowest possible subtopic to flag with a page reference. So the following line marks an occurrence of "border collie":

//get a value for _index
doc.indexes[0].topics[1].pageReferences.add( _story , _index , PageReferenceType.currentPage);

Peter