[CS3] How to unlink assigned stories?

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4 total messages Started by Ralf_Funke Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:55

#2082

Author: Ralf_Funke
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:55

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We have a workflow where our documents have a lot of assignments. At the end of production (before exporting to archive) I want to delete all assignments. That is the easy part. All assigned stories are moved to Unassigned InCopy content though. And I cannot find a way to unlink content by script. If the user selects the stories I can use:

app.menuActions.itemByName("Unlink Content").invoke();

But I would prefer to have no user interaction. Am I overlooking something?

Thank you,
Ralf

Re: [CS3] How to unlink assigned stories?

#2083

Author: Ralf_Funke
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:04

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Found it:

myAssignedStory.storyReference.itemLink.unlink();

And I thought I had tried this before. :-)

Re: [CS3] How to unlink assigned stories?

#2084

Author: Ralf_Funke
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:14

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Since posting my problem worked before I try again. Now that I have unlinked my stories I still have linked pictures. But if the assigned "story" is a picture the story reference is a rectangle that does not have an itemLink.

Unlinking the graphic of the rectangle does not work. Would be illogical anyway since the link of the assigned story is to an InCopy document.

Any idea?

Thank you,
Ralf

Re: [CS3] How to unlink assigned stories?

#2019

Author: Zixxer
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:29

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I had the same problem and used the "links" property from the document to get all the links.

for ( i = 0; i < jobDoc.links.length; i++ ) { var link = jobDoc.links.item(i); ... }

I looped through all the page items and compaired their id's with "link.parent.id", and was able to unlink the assigned story with "link.unlink();".

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