: Toggle visibility for sublayers in AI I want to toggle the visibility of the sublayers with a certain name. Now, I've seen it done for a layer: #target illustrator all_layers = app.activeDocument.layers.getByName("Layer

@Dunderdale640

Considering that you are working with groups (and not nested layers), the below script will toggle the “hidden” attribute of groups within layers (and nested layers):

// jshint -W118
// globals app

// jshint ignore:start #target illustrator #targetengine main
// jshint ignore:end

function loop(flag, layers) {

var groups, groupsCount;
var subLayers, subLayersCount;
var i1, i1l;
var i2, i2l;

// Loop over layers:
for (i1 = 0, i1l = layers.length; i1 < i1l; i1++) {

$.writeln('Layer: ', layers[i1].name);

// Get layer groups:
groups = layers[i1].groupItems;
groupsCount = groups.length;

// If there are nested groups:
if (groupsCount) {

for (i2 = 0, i2l = groups.length; i2 < i2l; i2++) {

$.writeln('Group: ', groups[i2].name);

// Does group match flag?
if (groups[i2].name.toLowerCase() == flag) {

// Flag matched, so toggle hidden attribute:
groups[i2].hidden = ( ! groups[i2].hidden);

}

}

}

// Get layer layers:
subLayers = layers[i1].layers;
subLayersCount = layers.length;

// If there are nested layers:
if (subLayersCount) {

// Call self and recurse:
loop(flag, subLayers);

}

}

}

if (app.documents.length > 0) {

// This script assumes you want to toggle visibility of “groups”
// with a name that matches first argument passed below.
loop(
'featured product', // Group name used to toggle visibility.
app.activeDocument.layers
);

}




Test file: test.ai

Note that I didn’t take into account nested layers with the name of “featured product”, but (not having given this scenario too much thought) you could simply add a condition to toggle the layer visibility for that layer instead of recursing into it's contents.

Ideas for a slight improvements to the code:


Prompt the user to input a string as the target group name to toggle
Include an option to show/hide layers in that same prompt window (as a checkbox perhaps?)
Wrap code in IIFE plus general house cleaning of syntax


Be warned that I have not stress-tested the above code, so caveat emptor. :)

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