How to generate a Mini TOC, but only for that Chapter that the Mini TOC sits in within the Book?

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February 10, 2020
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How can one specify which documents FrameMaker 2019 uses to generate a Mini TOC?

I have a Book with 80 Chapters, each chapter must have a Mini TOC with links to content para tags within the content of that chapter.

At present, I select the chapter folder and insert a 'Stand Alone TOC' into that chapter.

I then import a template to format the TOC paratags and then update the Book, select the Mini TOC to be populated, FM generates a Complete Book TOC into the mini TOC page, then I select all the chapters that are not applicable and delete those, leaving the mini TOC headings I want for that chapter only.

This is arduous as the Complete Book TOC is 10 Pages now, and growing.

There has to be a better way, what am I missing here?

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Correct answer Hezy A

I am not quite sure I understand the structure of your Frame book.

But in Frame you can have a Master book, that will contain many small books (instead of using folders, have a Master book and small books).

If each of your chapters will become a .book, which contains the other files which are the sections? of your book, then you can have a ToC for each book.

However, I am not sure how much extra work this will cause to set it up.

It might pay off on the long run.

Hezy ACorrect answer

Inspiring

I am not quite sure I understand the structure of your Frame book.

But in Frame you can have a Master book, that will contain many small books (instead of using folders, have a Master book and small books).

If each of your chapters will become a .book, which contains the other files which are the sections? of your book, then you can have a ToC for each book.

However, I am not sure how much extra work this will cause to set it up.

It might pay off on the long run.

mark at upwritenzAuthor

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Thanks for your suggestion Caroline.

This may be possible. I shall give it a try and see how much time it will require to create .book files for a chapter and see where that takes me.

Mark

mark at upwritenzAuthor

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Hi Caroline,

Ok, I tried the procedure you suggest. I found the menu dropdown and all that, no problem, thank you.

I have been approaching this the wrong way, or at least a different way.

I may be wrong here, but after trying to create a miniTOC using your suggestion, it seems to me that one can only insert a MiniToc at the begining of a 'document'. To me, that means if I had a 20 page document I could put a miniTOC on say, the first page and all is good.

But what I need to be able to do is to insert a miniTOC as the first page of a Chapter of documents in a 70 chapter technical manual. Each Chapter is made up of many separate documents and this is where I think I am coming unstuck.

When I try to set up the MiniTOC as you suggest, with the para tags I need, I get a error saying that none of those tags are in the document. I assume this is because the document I am inserting the MiniTOC into is just a blank page.

In this case I think it has to be this way because each document in the chapter may have 1 - 8 pages, with different headers and page numbering. I've placed each document in a folder hierachy within the FM Book as this automatically generates the 6 digit section / sub section and page numbers sucessfully. ( eg. 21-10-00)

Can you see a flaw in my thinking here? Do you have any suggestions as to how I can maybe restructure the setup to achieve a easier minTOC? Thank you for your reply too BTW

Mark.