Master Table of Contents hyperlink destination

Hi @MoonPigeon1965:

I keystroked what I think you are asking for: how to link the book TOC to a stand-alone TOC entry (instead of the normal pararagaph within a FrameMaker file).

I pulled in Heading1TOCs and Heading2TOCs from the standalone file and as @Jeff_Coatsworth predicted, I ended up with Heading1TOCTOC and a Heading2TOCTOC. 

But then it gets weird. It pulls in both the page numbers from the actual chapter files, then adds a tab and then adds the stand-along page numbers. There's nothing on the TOC reference to support this behavior—my best guess is Fm is trying but just can't quite pull it off. I've been using FrameMaker since the early 90s and I've never seen this question—how to link one TOC to another TOC. (I saw it recently on the InDesign forum, keystroked it and InDesign simply refused to produce any content at all, so at least FrameMaker is trying. 😊)

The links work and if you really want to do this, you could manually remove the extra page tab/numbers after each update or at least before the final output.

~Barb

Hi @MoonPigeon1965, and welcome.

A mini-TOC is just a list of headings in a single FrameMaker file—it can't link to an outside file. I think you are using the term Chapter TOC to refer to a stand-alone TOC, but a stand-alone TOC is its own .fm file so the miniTOC can't see it.

You can create a list of cross-references to link to other files. The list can look identical to a TOC list (mini, stand-alone or book), and it updates with the book, but it is fussier to set up.

~Barb