[DITA] Removing section number from PDF bookmarks

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

Hi all, 

Anyone had an issue where the PDF from a ditamap (using Publish panel) has numbering applied to the PDF bookmarks?

If the numbers were incrementing, I could live with it, but these are all showing as 1. as shown in uploaded image.

Ideally, the numbers would not display at all.

-Matt

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools · Accepted solution]

I figured it out, and here's the solution for those that run into the same issue:

• In Fm 2019, using the Publish panel, the DITA Base template file had numbering specified for the Title.0 paragraph tag
• Interestingly, the topic template didn't have numbering specified, so the issue didn't appear when outputting a single file to PDF...only when producing PDF from ditamap.
• By exporting the DITA Base template, removing the autonumber, saving, and importing the file back into the Publish settings, the file stored in the STS is now updated.

I hope this helps someone else!!!

-Mat