Indesign find text not in whole document

Question

I'm searching for a way to find the text of a specific paragraph style in an InDesign document but without searching the whole document, instead, I want to search only inside a text frame or other object.

The only way I found for now is using document.findText() and setting the findTextPreferences, is there something like myTextFrame.findText()?

But i don't want to search in the whole document, but only inside a specific text frame — Med Elbayoumi, Jun 06 '20 at 21:28
That's exactly what it does. findText() and changeText() and their GREP variations are working on the parent object. If you use it as a method on the textFrame it will search the text in the frame only. As far as I remember it will ignore the ovorflow text — Nicolai Kant, Jun 06 '20 at 21:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '21 at 15:46

You can use app.selection[0].findTEXT()

app.selection is an array that contains what you are selecting in Indesign.

And the [0] is the first item of the array.

So, you can select the textFrame and do your search.

Or

myTextFrame = app.selection[0];
myTextFrame.findText();

also works.

This only works on single text frame. If you want to search in more than 1 textFrame, you may need to write a for loop to do it.

Indesign find text not in whole document

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