Added first draft of make pages script

[brianp126]

Hi Chris, sorry for the delay. Here is my first pass at the makePages script. Would be good to test on a live json payload. I have some alerts for error handling, but could set up a logging function instead since if there's a problem with some of the json it may alert a lot. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

[ChrisHardie]

@brianp126 I finally had a chance to look at this today. Had to do a few things to make any progress with it:

• Move the script in to the Scripts Panel dir, otherwise it was not available in the INDD UI
• Comment out the || /indd?t?$/gi.test(tmplt.name) test on the template name, it always failed
• Set a separate API URL and temp file for storing the JSON response, since the script will work alongside our article fetching script

Beyond that, I'm stuck and need some assistance:

1. The parentPage name fetcher seems broken for every scenario, and I suspect it related to template tweaks you made, so hoping you can share notes on those. I tried hard-coding to C-Odd for testing for now.
2. The line doc.pages.item(0).name = pageNum; throws the error "Error: 'name' is a read-only property"
3. If I comment that line out, I start to get other errors like "Error: could not set text variable Date: Error: Object does not support the property or method 'customTextVariablePreferences'"

Thanks for any guidance you can offer. Example JSON for testing:

{"issue_date":"2024-04-03","page_count":32,"pages":[{"pageNum":1,"color":true,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":2,"color":true,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":3,"color":true,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":4,"color":true,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":5,"color":false,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":6,"color":false,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":7,"color":false,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":8,"color":false,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":9,"color":false,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":10,"color":false,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":11,"color":false,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":12,"color":false,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":13,"color":true,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":14,"color":true,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":15,"color":true,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":16,"color":true,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":17,"color":true,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":18,"color":true,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":19,"color":true,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":20,"color":true,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":21,"color":false,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":22,"color":false,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":23,"color":false,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":24,"color":false,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":25,"color":false,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":26,"color":false,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":27,"color":false,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":28,"color":false,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":29,"color":true,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":30,"color":true,"layout":"Even"},{"pageNum":31,"color":true,"layout":"Odd"},{"pageNum":32,"color":true,"layout":"Even"}]}

[brianp126]

Hey Chris, wanted to flag that I did send an updated version of the script via Upwork

[ChrisHardie]

I brought in the latest changes from @brianp126 here, pending discussion (currently in Upwork messges) about how to handle template page labels.