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GuOlga
GuOlga
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October 9, 2014
Question

Book TOC

  • October 9, 2014
  • 2 replies
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Could you, please, answer the following question:

is there a possibility to create a Book TOC, as it can be done for topics Insert Placeholder -> Topic TOC, for example.

Many thanks)

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    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    October 9, 2014

    Hi there

    In the RoboHelp TOC designer, you have some icons at the top as shown below:

    I believe if you choose to click and insert a TOC Placeholder, you will get what you are seeking. You configure the Placeholder to point to a different TOC.

    Cheers... Rick

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    October 9, 2014

    Of course, you will have to create a different TOC to have what you want inside it.

    Cheers... Rick

    GuOlga
    GuOlgaAuthor
    Participant
    October 10, 2014

    Thank you much for your concern!

    but, again (I feel I have to improve my explanatory skills )... as a result, I want to achieve the following:

    1) Contents view:

           Book_1

                Page_1_1

                Page_1_2

    2) Main body: on selecting  "Book_1" from the TOC, the user can see the Book_1 topic text + something like In this topic section, listing the Page_1_1 and Page_1_2 names with hyperlinks.


    PS: I just want these three topics to be opened separately (not as one topic), but with the possibility for the user to reference to the subtopics from the main one

    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_
    Legend
    October 9, 2014

    Yes. You can use bookmarks in your topic and add these to the TOC. Once the bookmarks have been created, you right click in the TOC and use the New > Page menu item to navigate to the bookmark. Just make sure you save your bookmarked topic before doing so or else you won't be able to find the bookmarks.

    GuOlga
    GuOlgaAuthor
    Participant
    October 9, 2014

    Thanks, but... we have probably misunderstood each other

    Lets suppose the Table of Contents is created already. There is a tree: 1 book and 3 pages. Is there a possibility to create some placeholder within book topic, where these three subtopics will be shown (with hyperlinks) and automatically updated on these subtopics names update.

    So that on opening the book page, the user could select the subtopic he is interested in (not in the Table of Contents, but within the book topic body).

    OR can these 1 book and 3 pages be treated as 1 topic? In this case, the solution is very simple - just to use the Topic TOC placeholder option...

    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_
    Legend
    October 9, 2014

    I think your later option is the way to go. I am not aware of any other to do what you want.

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