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cadbase
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February 15, 2017
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Problem with Indigo Layout TOC with Merged Projects

  • February 15, 2017
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If I try to use the new "Indigo" layout in RH 2017 with a project that has merged child projects, the TOC works in one direction only.

By this I mean I can use the TOC to navigate to topics in the child projects, but if I move to another page using a browse list, or by searching for another topic and selecting that from the search results, the TOC does not update properly to show the current page selection. If I switch the master project back to the older "Charcoal_Grey" layout, the TOC behaves as it should.

You can re-create this by creating two empty clean projects and linking these to a new master project. The TOC works in both directions on topics inside the project that you're in, but it does not work in the reverse direction for topics in a child project when viewed from the master project. Switching to "Charcoal_Grey" resolves the problem.

Although I can continue to use the "Charcoal_Grey" layout, I do like the new Indigo design and would prefer to adopt it throughout our systems, but without the TOC working in the reverse direction, it's easy to get lost in a large site.

Further to this, I discovered today that the breadcrumb hyperlinks don't appear to work properly in all cases - although this could be a separate problem. I'm testing this further as they sometimes work so I need to identify the circumstances around when they do and don't work.

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Peter Grainge
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February 15, 2017

Referring to "direction" is confusing me. I think what you are saying is simply that accessing topics via the TOC works OK and the topic syncs with the TOC but when you use the browse sequence or searching to access topics, then they fail to sync with the TOC. Correct?


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Peter Grainge
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February 15, 2017

... also, does this only happen in the merged output or does it happen in the single outputs as well? I think you mean the merge only but want to be sure.


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cadbase
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February 15, 2017

Yes that's correct. Navigating pages fails to sync the TOC but single output projects using Indigo work just fine.