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October 8, 2013
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table of contents contain duplicate headings in different levels in printed documentation output

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In Robohelp 10, the table of contents contain different books at different levels linked to topic files. When it gets published in printed documentation, the books linked to topic files gets published with two heading levels in the table of contents and as well as in the body content.

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Peter Grainge
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October 8, 2013

First I have removed your email address for two reasons.

  1. The whole idea of the forum is to put answers here so that others can benefit from them.
  2. You should never put your email address on any forum, unless you need enlarged body parts or want to hear from some official dealing with the multi million $£ estate of your long lost uncle.

It sounds like you are getting the book title as well as the topic title and maybe you have the wrong setting for Maintain Heading levels.

See Printed Documentation on my site.


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@petergrainge

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October 8, 2013

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your reply.

Is it like I have to manually edit the table of contents for the printed documentation in the chapter layout (Wizard -page 2) to avoid the duplicate headings.. The default table of contents will be used for other help contents only.

Regards,

Nalini

October 9, 2013

The levels are defined by the levels of books in the TOC. Three levels of books and you will get three levels of headings, four levels will give you four heading levels but you will have to go into Advanced properties to increase the level there from the default of three.


See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge


Hi Peter,

Now I have modified the table of contents and updated the books in the chapter layout. My toc contains heading levels till 4.

I use double leftarrow to remove the existing table and manually update chapters with topics in chapter layout (wizard - page 2- content). 

However, Robohelp considers only the levels specified in the chapter layout for publishing the word/pdf document. and publishes all the books in the chapter layout with heading level 1 and topics with heading level 2.

Also the labels which are in heading 2 in each page gets published in the word document (even if the headings [level 2] are not included in toc).

 

Please help me. I am very much confused.

Nalini