Book level - import master pages and formats

Dear all,

I am very new at scripting for framemaker (and a complete novice at JavaScripting) and I find it a bit hard to find information in an environment I'm not familiar in. Maybe you can help me out.

What I would like to do:

I would like to be able to modify the master pages, page layouts, paragraph formats and character formats in the first document of a book and then initiate the script, which will

1. import the master pages and formats from the first document into all the other documents (just like if you go via File > Import > Format),
2. update the book.

In the example scripts folder in the installation folder, I have found an example script that goes through all the documents in a book:

book=app.ActiveBook;

comp=book.FirstComponentInBook;

while(comp.ObjectValid())

{

        open(comp.Name);

        nextComp=comp.NextBookComponentInDFSOrder;

        prevComp=comp.PrevBookComponentInDFSOrder;

        compType=comp.BookComponentFileType;

        Log("BookComponent.log", "CompName-"+comp.Name);

        Log("BookComponent.log", "comp File Type-"+compType);

        Log("BookComponent.log", "Component Type(Fldr,Grp,file)-"+comp.ComponentType);

        Log("BookComponent.log", "PreviousCompName-"+prevComp.Name);

        Log("BookComponent.log", "nextCompName-"+nextComp.Name);

        Log("BookComponent.log", "---------------------------------");

        //process component here//

        comp=nextComp;

    }

function open(filename)

{

openProp = GetOpenDefaultParams()

i=GetPropIndex(openProp,Constants.FS_FileIsOldVersion)

openProp[i].propVal.ival=Constants.FV_DoOK

i=GetPropIndex(openProp,Constants.FS_FontNotFoundInCatalog)

openProp[i].propVal.ival=Constants.FV_DoOK

i=GetPropIndex(openProp,Constants.FS_FontNotFoundInDoc)

openProp[i].propVal.ival=Constants.FV_DoOK

i=GetPropIndex(openProp,Constants.FS_FileIsInUse)

openProp[i].propVal.ival=Constants.FV_DoCancel

i=GetPropIndex(openProp,Constants.FS_AlertUserAboutFailure)

openProp[i].propVal.ival=Constants.FV_DoCancel

retParm = new PropVals()

docOpen=Open(filename,openProp,retParm);

return docOpen;

}

function Log(logFile,textLine)

{

    file=new File ("C:\\ESLog\\"+logFile);

    file.open("a+", "TEXT", "????");

    file.write(textLine+"\r");

    file.close();

    }

That gets me started a bit. I have also seen the line //process component here//, and I am a bit familiar with programming and scripting. I somehow see how this works in principle. But then I am at a loss.

I know that there's a lot of documentation on FrameMaker scripting (I have the scripting guide). But I find it hard to find the corresponding information without spending hours of learning.

Could someone help me out?

Immense gratitude in advance!

Matthias