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Hypertext in Indexes

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
March 23, 2017
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How can I change an Index so that the text is included in the hypertext, not just the page #?

Using Unstructured Framemaker 2017.

Thank you.

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Barb Binder

Community Expert

Are you exporting to PDF? The entry is included with the first page number, but when there are multiple page numbers, they have their own link boxes.

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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blh5Author

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Yes, I will be exporting to PDF. I have 4 different indexes to maintain, 3 with unique entries and the 4th combines the other 3. I tried a test export to PDF but the text is not included in the link box, even tho each entry is unique (there are no duplicates of my entries, as these Indexes are actually tables of contents for the manual, rather than normal indexes.

Brenda

Brenda Haynes

Operations Administrator, Flair Airlines Ltd.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

To clarify my first response, my experience has always been that the link boxes are automatically drawn around the entry and the page number, if there is only one page number. You don't see these boxes in FrameMaker, they are created upon Saving to PDF.

When you open the exported PDF in Acrobat and go to edit the links, you can physically see the link boxes that were created. There is one around each single page entry:

But when an entry has multiple page numbers, multiple boxes are drawn.That is how someone can navigate to the appropriate page number.

these Indexes are actually tables of contents

I do not understand this statement. What feature are you using the create the index: Add Standalone TOC, Add Standard Index or something else?

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

Because it's not just THE page number. There are usually multiple pages on which the same Index Marker may be present. FM would have no way of knowing where to direct the link.

If your document has unique Index markers, I don't know if you can work around this by instead generating a List of Markers, restricted to type Index. LoM generates an entry for all instances, will contain duplicates, and is not sorted, so there's that to consider.

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blh5Author

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Unfortunately, I need the list sorted alphabetically. Actually, I have 4 different indexes to maintain, 3 with unique entries and the 4th combines the other 3. I also need the group titles, so I am struggling to figure out a way to generate them, have the entire entry as a hypertext link and keep them in alphabetical order with the group titles. The Index of Markers function does everything except put the text inside the hyperlink. Is there nothing I can change on the Reference page to get around this?

Otherwise, I may have to go back to using the List of Markers function and just adding the group titles manually every time.

Brenda

Brenda Haynes

Operations Administrator, Flair Airlines Ltd.

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