How to save labels in InCopy?

Question

It seems that when InCopy saves a document, programmatically added labels are lost. For instance, if I do this:

app.activeDocument.insertLabel('myLabel', 'magicString');

The label is effectively added, as evidenced by this:

app.activeDocument.extractLabel('myLabel'); // Yields 'magicString'

But if I save, close and reopen the document (all manually), and do:

app.activeDocument.extractLabel('myLabel');

The result is not 'magicString', but ''.

In InDesign, however, after the exact same operations, the result is 'magicString'. Is there any way to make the labels persistant in InCopy?

Answer 1

You should try this way:

app.activeDocument.stories[0].insertLabel('myLabel', 'magicString');

InCopy file is a single story and it seems that story maintains the label better than the document. Then to extract your label you would do:

app.activeDocument.stories[0].extractLabel('myLabel');