groups - ff6347/extendscript GitHub Wiki

##Create Groups

This shows how to add a group.

// create adoc with some settings
var doc = app.documents.add({
  documentPreferences: {
    pageHeight: 200,
    pageWidth: 200
  }
});
var page = doc.pages[0]; // get the page
// add a rectangle
var rect = page.rectangles.add({
  geometricBounds: [50, 0, 150, 100],
  fillColor: doc.swatches[3]
});
// add aoval
var oval = page.ovals.add({
  geometricBounds: [50, 100, 150, 200],
  fillColor: doc.swatches[3]
});

var arr = [rect, oval]; // add them to an array
var group = page.groups.add(arr); // create a group of them

##Find Groups Here you can see how to find groups in a document.

This was written for this stackoverflow question.

  // This script needs:
  // - A document with one page.
  // - Some groups with textframes in them on the first page.
  var pg = app.activeDocument.pages[0]; // Get the first page of the current doc.
  var groups = pg.groups;               // Get all groups.
  var tf_ingroup_counter = 0;           // Init a counter for all textframes in groups.
  for(var g = 0; g < groups.length;g++){
      var grp = groups[g];
          for(var t = 0; t < grp.textFrames.length;t++){
              var tf = grp.textFrames[t]; 
                  if(tf instanceof TextFrame){
                      tf_ingroup_counter++; // Increment counter.
                      } // End loop textfraems in group.
          }
      } // End loop groups.
// Alert all you have found:
  alert(
    "I found on page " + pg.name +"\n" + pg.textFrames.length +
    " text frames\nOh and there are also " +
    tf_ingroup_counter+ " hidden in groups."
  );

Jongware also had an answer to this question that turned out to be even better.

allframes = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
textframes = [];
for (i=0; i<allframes.length; i++)
{
    if (allframes[i] instanceof TextFrame)
        textframes.push(allframes[i]);
}
alert (textframes.length);