[Vitaliy Grebennikov]

Thx for your attention, Andrei!

I figured out why this formula didn’t work.

I tried to figure out this problem for a long time, went through many options, nothing worked, but it gave me a basic understanding of the patterns, and it turned out that the author posted this code simply with syntax errors (apparently, some text editor messed up the text).

Here is a working formula (I added a little to it so as not to mention the name several times.

var proj = app.project;
var itms = proj.items;
var itmsLen = itms.length;
var curItem = myComp;
var layerName = "/YOUR LAYER NAME/";
for(var i=0; i<itmsLen; i++){
     curItem = itms;
     if(curItem instanceof CompItem){
          if(curItem.name == layerName ){  //Will grab only the first name match
               myComp = curItem; 
              break;
              }
         }
    }
var chkLayer = myComp.layer(layerName );
if (chkLayer == undefined){
//do something
    }else{
//do something else
}

[Vitaliy Grebennikov]

This script don’t work for me(

I tested it – tried to make layer with specific name to be labeled with some colour, but it doesn’t work…

var proj = app.project;

var itms = proj.items;

var itmsLen = itms.length;

var curItem, myComp;

for(var i=0; i<itmsLen; i++){

curItem = itms;

If(curItem instanceof CompItem){

If(curItem.name == “your comp name”){ //Will grab only the first name match

myComp = curItem;

break;

}

}

}

var chkLayer = myComp.layer(“Layer Name”);

if (chkLayer == undefined){

//do this

}else{

//do that

}