Change order of appearance in TOC?

Question

I am building a small template meant for FM 2022. I have an issue with the TOC.. The TOC is to show Section titles, Chapter titles and Heading Titles.
The Section Titles reside on a background frame on the Master Pages as can be seen in the illustration here.
My issue is... I would like the Section Title to appear in the TOC BEFORE the Chapter Titles. But is it possible to change the order of appearance?

frameexpert · Accepted Answer

You could try using Graphics > Arrange to change the order of the text frames on the master page, but I think FrameMaker always lists the main flow paragraphs first in generated lists.

Bob_Niland · Answer

If the document is small and stable enough, converting the TOC from generated to manually maintained Xrefs would be a solution.

To stay generated, perhaps create a new ¶format to use in Flow A, that's hidden (perhaps by ColorViews), and using the Section Variable, or Xref'd to the Section string. Have the TOC generate from that (make sure the TOC lacks the hidden color name/def).

There's a decent chance I don't have the full picture here, because I would not have guessed that lists can generate from MP content (if only because the same MP may be used for multiple body pages).

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