EDIT : added an answer because edit would have been to long (see answer2)
Following a former post about document merging I ended up with a working script (Thanks Henriqu
I modified the script so that it gives me constant results and wrote an analyse function to get the structure of the document. I found it's probably a better idea to put all this in an answer rather than edit my first question because it's a bit long. 1° the simplified script :
function mergeDocs(docIDs) {
var baseDocname = DocumentApp.openById(docIDs[0]).getName();// typical name = IMPRESSION_page_07_07-06-2012__20:57
var modelDoc = DocsList.getFileById(docIDs[0]);
var newmodelName=baseDocname.substr(0,11)+'multipage'+baseDocname.substring(18);
var baseDocId = DocsList.copy(modelDoc,newmodelName).getId();// make a copy of firstelement and give it new basedocname build from the serie(to keep margins etc...)
var baseDoc = DocumentApp.openById(baseDocId)
var body = baseDoc.getActiveSection();
var headpara=' * '
for (dd=1;dd
2° the analyse function :
function analyse() {
var Doc = DocumentApp.openById('1UOr44ju8Li6yCSlmFbMRdimNpR2BjCGjcLkrwG9jW74');
var totalElements = Doc.getNumChildren();
var el=[]
for( var j = 0; j < totalElements; ++j ) {
var element = Doc.getChild(j);
var type = element.getType();
Logger.log(j+" : "+type)
if (type =='PARAGRAPH'){
el[j]=element.getText()
};
}
Logger.log(el)
}
and finally the result of this analyse :
0 : PARAGRAPH
1 : PARAGRAPH
2 : TABLE
3 : PARAGRAPH
4 : PARAGRAPH
5 : PARAGRAPH
6 : TABLE
7 : PARAGRAPH
8 : PARAGRAPH
9 : PARAGRAPH
10 : TABLE
11 : PARAGRAPH
12 : PARAGRAPH
13 : PARAGRAPH
14 : TABLE
15 : PARAGRAPH
[, , NOT_FOUND, , , * , NOT_FOUND, , , * , NOT_FOUND, , , * , NOT_FOUND, ]
(the ' * ' are paragraphs added by the script, the 'NOT_FOUND' are the tables) So, now I know that pagebreaks are shown as paragraphs, that the doc creates by itself paragraphs between tables (which causes the blank pages) but even when I try to remove unwanted paragraphs using element.removeFromParent(), I keep having these blank pages... I'm a bit lost right now ;-) Sorry for being so long.