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InDesign - remove master items override use selectors

I want to remove the overrides from master items, but just items in object style X, i wrote:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var pgs = doc.pages;
for(i = 0; i<pgs.length; i++){
    pgs[i].removeOverride(doc.objectStyles.itemByName("myObject"))
}

And all overrides removed. how i do it? Thank in advance

Solution

  • This is admittedly not very well documented in the InDesign Object Model, but using removeOverride() on a page (as you are doing) simply removes all overrides from all pageItems on that page. Also, removeOverride() does not take any arguments. Instead you could use it like this:

    var pi = app.activeDocument.pageItems;
var myOS = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.item('myObject');
for(var i = 0; i < pageItems.length; i += 1) {
  if(pi[i].appliedObjectStyle === myOS) page[i].removeOverride();
}

    This loops through all pageItems, checks each if it has the objectStyle and if so removes the override.