is it possible to do the following with an AppleScript:
I have a excel sheet with these columns:
OrderNo., Price A, Price B
I have some QXP7 documents with different tables which look like this:
Col(1): OrderNo. | Col(2): Value1 | Col(3): Value2 | … Col(n-1): Value n-1 | Col(n): Price A
Now I need an apple script that goes through each table of my Quark document, and through each row of each table.
Whenever it finds an Order No. (formatted with a Character Style “OrderNo”) I want the script to search this order number in the excel list, then check if Price A in the qxd matches Price A in the excel sheet and then replace Price A in qxd by Price B from the excel sheet
Is this possible? Can anybody help me with programming such a script?
Thanks a lot for your help Smile
Christof
Model: MacPro
Browser: Firefox 2.0.0.11
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
As it is one of my first scripts… (and until now it works )
Could anyone please tell me what can be improved in this script.
Do you have to assume having crashes when I run this script?
Any ideas or help are welcome
Thanks,
Christof
tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
activate
set xEUR to "0.00"
set xGBP to "0.00"
tell document 1
repeat with i from 1 to count of table boxes
tell table box i
set ccol to count of table columns
set crow to count of table rows
repeat with j from 1 to count of generic cells
set acol to (((j - 1) mod ccol) + 1)
set arow to (((j - 1) div ccol) + 1)
if acol = 1 or acol = ccol then
if cell type of generic cell j is text cell type then
tell story 1 of generic cell j
set myCellText to first word of text 1
set myCharStyle to name of character style
if myCharStyle is "OrderNo" then
--display dialog myCellText
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
tell worksheet 1 of workbook 1
repeat with k from 1 to 130
tell row k
if value of cell 1 is myCellText then
--display dialog myCellText & " found in Excel"
set xEUR to value of cell 2
set xGBP to value of cell 3
end if
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end tell
else
if first word of text 1 = xEUR then
--display dialog "Value found"
set first word of text 1 to xGBP
else
if acol = ccol then
set myword to first word of text 1
set first word of text 1 to "!!" & myword
end if
end if
end if
end tell
end if
end if
end repeat
end tell
end repeat
end tell
display dialog "Done."
end tell
