Re: Automating an unstructured text selection into a new DITA document

Hello again Cronos,

Here is a routine I created as a function to call from almost all my scripts. This function not only allows opening an FM document without updating all kinds of stuff but also doing this as read-only and/or invisible. Note that when you have opened a FM document invisible, it will remain invisible unless you change its visibility status. In general, you should make sure you close all invisibly opened files before your script quits (even in case an error occurs).

function OpenDoc ( sFilename, sOptions )

{

          var oaOpenProps = GetOpenDefaultParams ( );

    if ( sOptions.match ( "invisible" ) )

    {

        i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps, Constants.FS_MakeVisible );

        oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_DoCancel;

    }

          i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps, Constants.FS_FileIsOldVersion );

          oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_DoOK;

          i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps,Constants.FS_FontNotFoundInCatalog );

          oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_DoOK;

          i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps,Constants.FS_FontNotFoundInDoc );

          oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_DoOK;

          i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps,Constants.FS_RefFileNotFound );

          oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_AllowAllRefFilesUnFindable;

          i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps,Constants.FS_UpdateTextReferences );

          oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_DoNo;

          i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps,Constants.FS_UpdateXRefs );

          oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_DoNo;

          i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps,Constants.FS_AlertUserAboutFailure );

          oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = false;

          i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps,Constants.FS_UseRecoverFile );

          oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_DoShowDialog;

    if ( sOptions.match ( "readonly" ) )

    {

                    i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps,Constants.FS_OpenDocViewOnly );

                    oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = true;

          }

    else

    {

                    i = GetPropIndex ( oaOpenProps,Constants.FS_FileIsInUse );

                    if ( sOptions.match ( "forcewritable" ) )

                    {

                              oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_ResetLockAndContinue;

                    }

                    else

                    {

                              oaOpenProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_DoShowDialog;

                    }

          }

          oaRetParms = new PropVals ( );

          oDocOpen = Open ( sFilename, oaOpenProps, oaRetParms );

          return oDocOpen;

}

Good luck

Jang