Trying to update a mini TOC

[Dano0326]

I'm trying to follow the process you describe for formatting a miniTOC in this post:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/formatting-mini-table-of-content/td-p/10869326

I need to add right-aligned leaders between Heading 2 and the page number. However, after editing the Tab stop as you demonstrated, it doesn't appear that clicking Update Style is doing anything. The leaders do not appear on the Reference page between <$paratext> and <$pagenum>. What am I doing wrong?

[Barb Binder]

You will need to update the style after setting the tab stops, but the reference page won't update until you update the mini-toc.

• Right click the Mini-TOC text > Update Mini-TOC.
• Or update your book with Update Mini-TOC enabled. 

~Barb

[Dano0326]

Thank you for earlier response. That seems to have worked except for the following issue. The mini TOC is displaying correctly but I am not able to follow it with the next text. --It goes to the next page. When I select for that text to Keep with Previous Paragraph, it pulls the last entry from the mini TOC to the following page.  Possibly related: earlier when I was trying to get the miniTOC to format correctly it was displaying but listed the pagenumber as page 2 when it should have been page 1. 

[Barb Binder]

Please share a screen shot with borders and text symbols visible.

~Barb

[Dano0326]

I'm attaching  to top of the page with the miniTOC and the top of the page that follows. 

[Barb Binder]

Hi @Dano0326:

It doesn't look like the title and the entire table are going to fit under the mini TOC. Are you OK with the table splitting across pages? If so, make sure that you haven't sent the rows to stay together.

Or maybe it's the titles that are set to stay together? We see the tables in between the two titles but FrameMaker does not. As far as FrameMaker is concerned, they are consecutive titles. If one is told to keep with next, or the other was told to keep with previous, they would need to stay together on the same page.

~Barb

[frameexpert]

Don't anchor your tables in the paragraphs that have text in them. Make a separate anchor paragraph just for the tables. This will give you more flexibility as far as pagination and spacing. (We did this on our web meeting.)

[Dano0326]

Yes, I remembered that, but I must have not been using it correctly, it wasn't working. 

[K.Daube]

IMHO you anchor the MiniTOC at the beginning of the line "Usisng this Manual"

• delete the minitoc
• add an empty paragraph where you want to place it
• Insert thr minitoc at the beginning of this paragraph