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September 16, 2024
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FrameMaker 2022 - HTML5 Generation: wrong synchronization between the TOC and the HTML5 content

  • September 16, 2024
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When I generate a HTML5 help, I  use topic sequences to scroll back and forth between the topics. The help project is quite large, i.e. it contains about 2400 A4 pages. When scrolling, the TOC entries do not match the currently displayed help topics. There is an offset between the topic order and the TOC order.

Can anybody give me a hint how to avoid or how to solve this problem?

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davidcfrye5910298
Inspiring
September 17, 2024

While I'm not familiar with your exact issue, I have had all sorts of trouble the last two years with the HTML5 conversion through FrameMaker. Most of the issues we've had centered on special characters being read as part of the code (i.e., it appears that the conversion code is not setup to escape some special characters) or ignored by the code when it shouldn't be. I don't know if that is helpful at all, but you might investigate your content to see how that conversion might be handled. If everything before that sequence you show in your screenshots is NOT out of sync, it stands to reason somewhere in that range something is "different" about the underlying content. Maybe. Good luck!

Community Expert
September 17, 2024

Hi,

What do you mean with "do not match"?

Does this mean that a different page is opened?

Or do you have a single page with several topics, and the TOC entry does not jump to the correct topic on this page?

Or does the TOC entry jump to a different page?

Best regards, Winfried

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 16, 2024

I'm not familiar with the term "topic sequences" in HTML5 output - are you talking about a breadcrumb browse sequence? What patch level of FM2022 are you running?

Participant
September 16, 2024
Hi,
with the term "Topic Sequences" I meant "Browse Sequences". Sorry that I used the wrong term, but I normally use the German versions of FrameMaker and RoboHelp.


Best Regards

Bernd Steffens



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Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 16, 2024

I've not heard of anyone experiencing a browse sequence getting out of synch with the TOC - if you look at the output locally, does it happen there? Or is this something you only see happening when it's been loaded to a web server?