How to get a TOC when publishing an FM 2017 book in HTML5?

[Eleonore Bdoc]

I use FrameMaker 2017 Release and  want to publish directly from FM.

My book has a TOC and an Index file, but they don't appear in the HTML5 output. What shall I do?

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Can you show a screenshot of your Settings?

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Just had another thought - are these TOC and Index files generated by FM or did you make them up yourself?

[Eleonore Bdoc]

They are automatically generated files.

[Eleonore Bdoc]

This is what my book looks like:

And what the HTML5 ouput looks like:

[Eleonore Bdoc]

There aren't many Settings when you publish directly from FrameMaker, do you want my Settings.sts file?

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

I would check in a couple of places - the first is on the Style Mapping tab to see if you've told it to create a TOC based on what Paragraph headings to paginate on & the other place is in the settings of the layout itself - you can tell a layout to show or display a TOC - see Matt's video on it - Customizing HTML5 output with FrameMaker 2015 - YouTube 

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

I recall this happened in the initial release (14.0.0)

Have you updated to 14.0.4?

Also, this can be browser/firewall related. Try a different browser and also post it to your web server before  viewing.

-Matt

[Eleonore Bdoc]

I'm in version 14.0.3.500 but I can't find FM updates for my TCS 2017 Release:

[Jeff_Coatsworth · Accepted solution]

Try going straight to the updates page - Adobe - FrameMaker : For Windows

[Eleonore Bdoc]

I updated FrameMaker to 14.0.4.511.

It solved my Index issue but not my TOC issue.

Jeff_Coatsworth​ When I change the layout settings, the new settings are not applied (see Fig.2 hereafter). Anyway, the default settings include a TOC pane but it is still mssing from my HTML5 output.

Fig.1 Output with an Index but still no TOC

Fig. 2 Layout settings for the above output.

As you can see, they don't match.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Looking back at post#5 of your FM book, I don't see any TOC or IX generated files listed - I would have expected to see a "book_nameTOC" file present.

[Eleonore Bdoc]

The "orange" files are the FM generated files, the book shows the title of the content of the file, not the file's name.

I tried to correct my previous post to say taht thanks to the update, I eventually got a TOC in my output!

.... The only issue remaining are the fact that I can't customize the layout (customized settings are not applied in the output).

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

You may have to give your modified layout a new name to be used - I can't really tell you much because I don't use this FM Publish workflow. Maybe Matt can chime in...

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

Check out the free info on HTML5 publishing at Get free HTML5 training - Tech Comm Tools

Since the update solved your "How to get a TOC when publishing an FM 2017 book in HTML5?" issue, if that doesn't resolve it, go ahead and start another topic.

-Matt

[Eleonore Bdoc]

Yes, I'll start another topic if needed.

Out of curiosity, don't you get that same issue?

[Matt S - Tech Comm Tools]

Formatting my content has been flawless and easy. That's not to say I can do *anything* I want, but what I've needed to do has been straightforward.