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Thanks for sharing that information.

I might have a project coming up which will involve database-driven index
generation, so this will really be helpful then.

Thanks again



On 03-11-13 23.28, in article 2cce6115.-1@webx.la2eafNXanI,
"Olav_Kvern@adobeforums.com" <Olav_Kvern@adobeforums.com> wrote:

> Gang--
> 
> Scripting the creation of index topics with subtopics can be a real
> brain-twister. When you look at the InDesign CS object model, you'll see that
> the index object has a topics collection, and that you can tell the index to
> add a topic:
> 
> 
> 
> //given an index "myIndex"
> var myTopic = myIndex.topics.add("Mammals");
> 
> So far, so good. Next, we can see that topics include a subtopics collection,
> and that we can add a subtopic as follows:
> 
> var mySubtopic = myTopic.subtopics.add("Bats");
> 
> The subtopic "Bats" shows up on the "Mammals" topic, just as one would expect.
> Let's say we want to add a further subtopic--now things get confusing (at
> least for me). Here's what doesn't work:
> 
> var myTopic = myIndex.topics.add("Mammals");
> var mySubtopic = myTopic.subtopics.add("Bats");
> var mySubSubTopic = myTopic.subtopics.add("Vampire");
> 
> The above script produces the index topics "Mammals, Bats," and "Mammals,
> Vampire," when what we wanted was "Mammals, Bats, Vampire." It took me (and
> Stan Somers, another Adobe guy) a while to figure out the right approach
> (Stan's the one who really got it to work). Here it is:
> 
> var myTopic = myIndex.topics.add("Mammals");
> var mySubtopic = myTopic.subtopics.add("Bats");
> var mySubSubTopic = mySubtopic.parent.subtopics.add("Vampire");
> 
> What the...? Aren't myTopic and mySubtopic.parent the same object? As it turns
> out, they're not. When you tell myTopic to create mySubtopic, what you're
> really doing is creating *another topic*. It's that topic, not myTopic, that
> you want to have create the subtopic.
> 
> Hope this helps any poor soul who's been trying to create index topics via
> scripting!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ole