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Inspiring
September 6, 2014
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TOC Layout- ok to duplicate entries?

  • September 6, 2014
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Hi,

How have you handled a TOC where duplicate entries seemed useful? This Webhelp project includes many reports in multiple projects as shown below.

Thanks for your thoughts.

TOC

Report Types (book) (this complete list of reports is required by our company)

   Bird Project Reports (book)

  • Report 1 (page)
  • Report 2 (page)

  Fish Project Reports (book)

  • Report 1 (page)
  • Report 2 (page)
  • Report  (page)

Tree Project Reports (book)

  • Report 1 (page)
  • Report 2 (page)

(much further down the TOC)

Bird Projects (book)

  • Finding Birds (page)
  • Keeping Notes (page)
  • Bird Project Reports (book) (you can see that duplicating the report lists would be useful in these project sections)
    • Report 1 (page)
    • Report 2 (page)

  Fish Projects (book)

etc.

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Correct answer Willam van Weelden

I've used two techniques, depending on the requirements:

  • Create snippets with the entire contents and use that on different topics. This is useful in situations where topic title and topic file name must differ, but contents is the same. I use this for pages in different modules with different names but with the same functions.
  • Create a new TOC and merge that in several locations in the main TOC. I use this to repeat several books with pages in multiple locations. This allows me to only administer the menu once. I also use this to split up the main menu in sizable chuncks.

Kind regards,

Willam

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Willam van Weelden
Willam van WeeldenCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 8, 2014

I've used two techniques, depending on the requirements:

  • Create snippets with the entire contents and use that on different topics. This is useful in situations where topic title and topic file name must differ, but contents is the same. I use this for pages in different modules with different names but with the same functions.
  • Create a new TOC and merge that in several locations in the main TOC. I use this to repeat several books with pages in multiple locations. This allows me to only administer the menu once. I also use this to split up the main menu in sizable chuncks.

Kind regards,

Willam

claud2134Author
Inspiring
September 8, 2014

Thanks, William!

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Willam van Weelden <forums_noreply@adobe.com