InDesign: Find parent hyperlink of text selection

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#1

Is there a way to determine if a random text selection is part of a hyperlink? This one really has me stumped. TIA.

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#2

–Maybe something along these lines?:

–First, get a text range from a selection:


tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
	tell document 1
		set t to get object reference of the selection
		--> text from character 16635 to character 16652 of story id 109102 of document id 4 of application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
	end tell
end tell

–Then, get hyperlink text ranges (example is for first item):


tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
	tell document 1
		set h to get every hyperlink
		--return h
		set s to (source of (properties of item 1 of h))
		--return s
		
		return properties of s
		--> {id:110846, applied character style:nothing, hidden:false, source text:text from character 16635 to character 16652 of text flow id 109102 of document id 4 of application "Adobe InDesign CS6", parent:document id 4 of application "Adobe InDesign CS6", index:1, name:"Jones, Jane J.", object reference:hyperlink text source id 110846 of document id 4 of application "Adobe InDesign CS6", label:""}		
	end tell
end tell

– Now you could compare the text ranges for intersections
– There is probably a better way, Shane would know!

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#3

Thanks, I had also considered a scheme where I could find every hyperlink text source whose source text was in the selection, but that seemed a horribly slow way to me. I was hoping there would be a straightforward way to check this.

#4

You could probably narrow things down quickly with something like:

hyperlinks whose parent story of source text of source = (get parent story of selection)

Then you’d check indexes.

#5

Thank you very much.