Table of Contents Broken Links

blitza4life,

You didn't mention whether any conditional text may exist in the document. However, I have seen this happen when conditional text was used in a book and pages got edited with the conditional text hidden. If this is the culprit, the cause would be a bit of text or end-of-paragraph marker adjacent to a heading that has a condition tag applied that is set to hide at when the book is generated. If you want to rule this out, here's how:

1. Open all files in the book.
2. Set all conditions to show with indicators.
3. Update the book.
4. Save all files.
5. Save all files as MIF. (yes, in addition to...)
6. Close the book and all its files.
7. Open the book.mif file, save as .book;  and then open all the MIF files associated, then save those back to FM.
8. Check the TOC links to see if they work. If they do, when you land on the linked text you'll be able to see and either remove the condition tags or delete the tagged text. Then, update the book again and the TOC should be accurate.

Another potential root cause of this problem could be text insets, but that's more complicated and less frequently the issue. Please update this string when you find a solution.

Thanks

What happens when you update the book? Are you still getting broken link messages? Maybe the files have gotten locked as Read-Only. Try opening all files in the book first before updating – that can often give you better error reporting as to what’s happening rather than the silent opens that FM does when updating unopened docs.