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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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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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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.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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    Anonymous
    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

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    October 9, 2013

    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


    If books are coming in with Heading 1 and Topics start with Heading 2, you have not ticked the option I mentioned before and that is covered on my site.

    If you are not seeing any further heading levels in the TOC of the document, then you must have the setting in Advanced set too low, as above.

    Try this with one of the sample projects. Click Open on the RoboHelp Starter page and then click Samples in the ribbon on the left.

    When you generate the document, are you using a CSS style or mapping to a Word template? (Last page of the wizard)

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

    @petergrainge

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