JavaScript macro

[mugiwara]

Hi!

I searched, but couldn’t find any examples for JavaScript macros. Are there any somewhere? Most of the examples are VBScript.
What I want to do is the following:

• Find all Headings with the type of “Heading 2”
• Under every Heading 2, there is a table with a specify table style. Read the value from the second row, second column(High-Low-Medium).
• Insert sorted cross-references to heading 2 into a table under Heading 1 (table has different table style)
• Also sort all chapters with Heading 2 according the value from the table.

Could someone please help me get started? I honestly don’t know where do I even begin. I found this site: LibreOffice: JavaScript Service Reference but this doesn’t help me.

Thanks in advance!

[Wanderer]

I have not looked in this for years, but you could start at OpenOffice as I don’t think there was much change. Note the used rhino-implementation will not be of newer date. So not everything a user of modern Javascript expect will be available…

https://www.openoffice.org/framework/scripting/release-0.2/javascript-devguide.html

[mugiwara]

Thanks for the reply! I found this site too, but this is definitely out of date.

[Wanderer]

@mugiwara

this is definitely out of date.

? It is quite old, but “out of date” I’d used only, if there would be some/much change since then. Either javascript isn’t used much in OpenOffice/ LibreOffice or there are few questions open…
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Quick search for rhino gave:

Minimum Javascript version in macros

(I added the calc tag mainly because that was the module I was working in. I could easily have encountered this issue in any LibreOffice module.) I was writing a macro to solve a problem in a Calc worksheet I was working on. I was having troubles with the syntax. I wanted to use JavaScript classes. But it seems the version of JavaScript supported by LibreOffice (and probably other forks) lack support for not only classes, but let, const, the predefined class Map, for...of expressions, lambd…

[mugiwara]

sorry, with “out of date” I meant, that the example uses ScriptContext there, however, that’s not working. Correct would be XSCRIPTCONTEXT, so there were a few changes since that was published.