TOC text anchor missing?

Report · May 23, 2018

When exporting to EPUB (with a TOC inside the document/Book) I got a message like this "TOC Text anchor_idTOCAnchor - 2 ///////// missing (not found). I checked a lot about this problem and did all – nothing works!

There is no Hyperlinks visible in the document??, its empty.

Please help me. Its time consuming!!

My HTML ”Stories" is:

<idPkg:Story xmlns:idPkg="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/idml/1.0/packaging" DOMVersion="13.1">
<Story Self="u14f" AppliedTOCStyle="TOCStyle/Test Innehåll nytt" UserText="true" IsEndnoteStory="false" TrackChanges="false" StoryTitle="$ID/" AppliedNamedGrid="n">
<StoryPreference OpticalMarginAlignment="false" OpticalMarginSize="12" FrameType="TextFrameType" StoryOrientation="Horizontal" StoryDirection="LeftToRightDirection" />
<InCopyExportOption IncludeGraphicProxies="true" IncludeAllResources="false" />
<ParagraphStyleRange AppliedParagraphStyle="ParagraphStyle/TOctitel">
<CharacterStyleRange AppliedCharacterStyle="CharacterStyle/$ID/[No character style]">
<Content>Innehåll</Content>
<Br />
</CharacterStyleRange>
</ParagraphStyleRange>
<ParagraphStyleRange AppliedParagraphStyle="ParagraphStyle/TOCkapitel">
<CharacterStyleRange AppliedCharacterStyle="CharacterStyle/$ID/[No character style]">
<HyperlinkTextSource Self="u180" Name=".384" Hidden="true" AppliedCharacterStyle="n">
<Properties>
<AlternativeDestination Type="TocTextAnchor" IndexMarkerId="0" TextAnchorName="_idTOCAnchor-1" TocEntryPageNumberString="	2" TocEntryLevel="1" />
</Properties>
<Content>Kapitel 1 2</Content>
</HyperlinkTextSource>
<Br />
<HyperlinkTextSource Self="u187" Name=".391" Hidden="true" AppliedCharacterStyle="n">
<Properties>
<AlternativeDestination Type="TocTextAnchor" IndexMarkerId="0" TextAnchorName="_idTOCAnchor-2" TocEntryPageNumberString="	3" TocEntryLevel="1" />
</Properties>
<Content>Kapitel 2 3</Content>
</HyperlinkTextSource>
<Br />
<HyperlinkTextSource Self="u18e" Name=".398" Hidden="true" AppliedCharacterStyle="n">
<Properties>
<AlternativeDestination Type="TocTextAnchor" IndexMarkerId="0" TextAnchorName="_idTOCAnchor-3" TocEntryPageNumberString="	4" TocEntryLevel="1" />
</Properties>
<Content>Kapitel 3 4</Content>
</HyperlinkTextSource>
</CharacterStyleRange>
</ParagraphStyleRange>
</Story>
</idPkg:Story>

Report · May 23, 2018

If you have the latest version of InDesign, in the Layout > Table of Contents dialog, check "Make text anchor in source paragraph" in the Options at the bottom and see if that fixes it.

Report · May 23, 2018

Moving to InDesign EPUB forum

Report · Aug 09, 2023

Hi there,

Why do I still get this problem when I don't have a Table of Contents?

Report · Aug 09, 2023

Probably because you don't have a TOC. 🙂 EPUB really expects to find one for the dynamic — reader-generated — TOC, and if one hasn't been set up and updated, it may find fragments of other links and old anchors and get confused.

Create a simple TOC of chapter headings or the like. Generate it. When you get the text placement cursor, either drag it into a little square, then delete it, or hit Esc. That will leave the essential TOC list and markers in place for the EPUB export.

It's best if you give this a named TOC 'style' and then specify that style in the export, but you can use [Default] as well.

Report · May 23, 2018

Thanks Steve

I have studied a lot of this problem in this Forum. And of course I checked "Make text anchor in source paragraph". I have done new documents and also only tried to export just the document TOC.

I have the latest InDesign 2018 and OS 10.11.6. I tried also on another computer (same OS).

It is said in Forum that "Text Anchors" showing up in Hyperlinks, but its empty also in Bookmarks

What to do?

(I showed My HTML ”Stories" earlier. Is it anything there?

Report · May 23, 2018

How do I find InDesign EPUB Forum?

Report · May 23, 2018

You're in it now. I moved your post to the InDesign EPUB forum.

From the InDesign main page, click on Overview (under the ID logo). On the Overview page, there's a link to it on the bottom right under RELATED COMMUNITIES.

Report · May 24, 2018

Ok Im here now. How to figure my problem out?

Thanks Steve

I have studied a lot of this problem in this Forum. And of course I checked "Make text anchor in source paragraph". I have done new documents and also only tried to export just the document TOC.

I have the latest InDesign 2018 and OS 10.11.6. I tried also on another computer (same OS).

It is said in Forum that "Text Anchors" showing up in Hyperlinks, but its empty also in Bookmarks

What to do?

(I showed My HTML ”Stories" earlier. Is it anything there?

Report · Sep 27, 2018

I had the same problem.

I solved it checking what I had put in the "articoli" list (I don't know how it's called in English, the list where you put all the parts you want to export to epub).

I found that in a few of them I had forgot to put the titles of the chapters. These titles had the styles that the automatic toc used to recognize them and correctly manage the corresponding links.

I'm sorry I'm late, I hope I was at least able to explain, without knowing the English menu voices

Report · Sep 28, 2018

Make sure that you activate this option