How can I make "Chapter" in FM book TOC clickable?

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January 29, 2024
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Chapter in Book TOC is not clickable. How can I make it clickable?

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Correct answer frameexpert

Adding a reference image. I want this entire line clickable (chapter + heading text). It is possible.

This is a known issue (actually, a "feature"; see FrameMaker documentation). Take a look at this video:

https://youtu.be/mWPs2jpEBjM

You can find the software that I refer to in the video at:

https://frameexpert.gumroad.com/

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Amit:

I meant to bring this up on your previous post on how to change the look of the chapter numbers in your TOC, but it's been a busy few days.

Whenever you add a character style to a paragraph, the hyperlink is limited to the text within that style, TOC included. I am marking Rick's answer as correct because his script will take care of this for you. (And I'm excited to learn that this script exists, because this comes up all the time.)

The alternatives are to edit the link boxes in Acrobat, or forgo the character formatting.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Amit Mani30445109n307Author

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Thank you.

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FrameMaker-dk

Community Expert

In order to have FrameMaker generate hyperlinks in the TOC you need to have a chec mark here:

Do you have that?

Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk

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Amit Mani30445109n307Author

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Yes, I have that. I noticed that 'Chapter' is clickable but chapter - 'text is not clickable.

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Amit Mani30445109n307Author

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Adding a reference image. I want this entire line clickable (chapter + heading text). It is possible.

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

Is this a TOC file, or a mini-TOC in the chapter file?

Is the hypertext desired on the "CHAPTER 1:" text?
If so, is that static or generated content in the TOC?
If static, you'll need to either make it hypertext yourself, or having it be an Xref by $paratext to the text string "CHAPTER 1" at the destination.