TOC does not display anything except title of the TOC

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This is the most frustrating problem!  Have spent almost 2 days on this.  I've created 4 documents:

1. A Fonts Doc (FD) where I created ALL fonts in this project.  The other 3 Docs imported their paragraph styles from this Fonts doc.

2.  A one page doc (D1) which contains entries from 3 paragraph styles, P1,P2,P3

3. A one page dco (D2) which cantains entries from e different paragraph styles, P4,P5,P6

4. A table of contents page (TOC).

Remember--D1,D2, and TOC had their font sets imported from FD.

I created a TOC for the TOC page.

The TOC included all 6 paragraph styles and a TOC PageTitle Style.

I did check "Include Book Documents".

I also saved each document and the book (I created a book BK from TOC, D1, and D2).

I synced the book.

I always "Update the Toc.

NOTHING displays in the TOC except the Title of the TOC page.

Here's a link to a screen capture showing most of the settings.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Bty, Chrome, Windows 10 Pro

[Anna Lander]

Well, I don't see the files and maybe guess too complex figure, but when you use in TOC the same styles as in titles, some advanced settings might provide such issues. For example, Size, Spacing, Start Paragraph etc. So it could be better to create one style for titles and another style for TOC entries.

But if your Title stiles don't have any advanced settings, it's not so needed.

[Barb Binder]

Sorry. I meant that in the document files, those titles don't know they are titles. They are all using [Basic Paragraph] and not C1 or C2 or C3. InDesign collects the text using the C1-C3 tags, but nothing is using them... yet. So click on the Chp1 title, and then click on C1, repeat for the other titles. Once the TOC is working let me know, and I'll better explain the second part of my answer.

~Barb

Before:

After:

[Barb Binder]

Those are all chapter titles, right? In both documents? And will they look the same in all six instances in the document files, and the same in all six instances in the TOC?

In that case, all you need is one tag called something like "Chapter Title". InDesign will collect the text using that tag in chronological order.

~Barb