TOC conversion from FM 8 to Robohelp 7 is a catastrophe!

[Ubiroi10]

Hello!

I have a technical user manual, created in FM 8, that needs to be converted into online documentation. I have tried converting my FM 8 book into  Robohelp 7 and everything seems to have worked well, except for the TOC. It is absolutely a mess! It starts at Chapter 1.8.1 and everything before that is missing in the TOC. Then it contines on to Chapter 2 but leaves out Chapter 3 completely...HELP!!!! What have i done wrong? Would really appreciate sometips on this!

Thanks so much!

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Did you have a ToC in FM? If so, then you should be able to tell RH to import that when you set the conversion settings on where to break up the FM paragraph tags into topics. If you didn't, then (I believe), that there's a way to auto-create a ToC based on the topic names in RH. I can't tell you how because I'm using the TCS2 to do all my FM to RH conversion & I'm pretty sure that the FM to RH functionality has improved since RH7.

[Michael_GABO]

Dear Ubiroi10,

I don't have these problems.

A requirement is, to map the Pagination Settings correct. You did it?

Try the following way.

1. Delete all entries in the RoboHelp TOC you want to replace.

2. In the Project Manger pod right-click on Project Files.

3. In the context menu, choose Import.

4. In File Types choose *.book.

5. Choose your book to convert.

6. In Content Setting window, select the option Convert FrameMaker Table of Contents.

7. You can now add to an existing or create a new TOC.

8. The structure in RoboHelp should now match to the structure in FrameMaker.

I hope it works.