Best practice for filling a text range in Google Docs App Script-CodePudding

I use a template in google docs for a letter and I want to fill the letter after the (dynamic) header of the letter automatically via App Scripts. Is there any best practice to set the text always to the same position? I've tried to use a placeholder and replace it. But sometimes I need to replace the text more than one time. Thank you very much for your hints

CodePudding user response：

I don't know about best practice but you could use bookmarks. You can't name them but if you know, lets say, the 5th bookmark is user name then cycle through the bookmarks and when you get to the 5th edit the text.

Before:

function myFunction() {
  try {
    var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
    var bmarks = doc.getBookmarks();
    var position = null;
    var i = 0;
    for( i=0; i<bmarks.length; i   ) {
      console.log(bmarks[i].getId());
      position = bmarks[i].getPosition();
      position.insertText("i = " i)
    }
  }
  catch(err) {
    console.log(err);
  }
}

After:

CodePudding user response：

In your situation, how about using NamedRange?

Reference:

Class NamedRange