Identifying/Mapping TOC text anchors

Question

Is there any straightforward way to identify the automatically generated text anchor for any TOC entry? I generate a TOC that works fine for both the print edition and the EPUB/Kindle side TOC. It creates 120-odd text anchors of the name style '_idTOCAnchor-34'.
 
In theory, I can do internal references using these anchors... but in practice, the order and numbering seem to be almost random. ...Anchor-1, for example, goes to the last section heading in the document, and I haven't been able to make any sense out of the numeric order.
 
So if I want to link to a section titled "End Material" on page 195, without going and setting a specific text anchor of known name, how do I identify that heading's TOC anchor number? (It seems with all the various menus and palettes and such, this should be much easier... but I'm stumped.)
 
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Peter Kahrel · Accepted Answer

The order is probably not random. The anchors must be added from back to front, and they are numbered ascending, so they appear to be in reverse order.

You can use this script to map anchors:

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/text_anchors.html

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Peter Kahrel · Answer

> a way to modify the script so that it can automatically rename the anchors based on the text of the paragraph they are anchored to

A separate script would make more sense.

> that portion of the script doesnt seem to prompt

Not sure I understand what you mean here. What kind of prompt were you thinking of?

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