Tables

The LAY methods that work on the tables are:

LAY.getTablesCount()

Returns the number of tables in the layout of the document.

For example the instruction:

var tablesCount = LAY.getTablesCount();

returns the integer value 2 in the tablesCount variable.

LAY.getTable(tableIndex)

Returns the block of the table with the given index or undefined if the table index is invalid.

Info

The index of the table is not the id of the block. It must be contained in the range [0, n], where n is the number of tables in the document.

For example the instruction:

var table = LAY.getTable(1);

returns the following object in the table variable:

{
    "id": 21,
    "parent": 1,
    "pageNumber": 1,
    "type": "table",
    "x0": 60,
    "y0": 457,
    "x1": 790,
    "y1": 706,
    "children": [22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34 ... 68,69],
    "beginPos": -1,
    "endPos": -1,
    "tokenBegin": 69,
    "tokenEnd": 177,
    "label": "T1",
    "tableIndex": 1,
    "cellIndex": 12,
    "rows": 7,
    "cols": 6
}

where:

Field name	Description	Field type	Default value
tableIndex	The position of the block in the index of the tables	Integer	-1
cellIndex	The position the block of the tables's first cell in the index of the cells	Integer	-1
rows	The number of rows of the table	Integer	-1
cols	The number of the columns of the table	Integer	-1

Watch the blocks fields to know about the common fields of this object.

Note

Table indexes are zero-based, in the exampletableIndex= 1 is the index of the second table detected in the layout.