TOC entry without new topic

[DarrelTenter]

I have a multi-chapter project in FrameMaker 12 that I've linked in RH11. I use RH to auto-generate the TOC. The first page of each topic has the first two headings from each FM chapter, with the remaining headings starting each remaining topic. I've done this by creating and mapping two paragraph styles in FM. H0, H1, and H1A. I use FM to auto number them like this:

100 H0 Chapter title

101 H1A Topic 1

102 H1 Topic 2

103 H1 Topic 3

In RH Project Settings / FM conversion settings, I set H1 to start a new topic, which creates a corresponding TOC entry. I've set H1A to not start a new topic because my client wants it on the same page as the first topic. However this of course doesn't create a TOC entry. This makes it look like the H1A entry is missing from the document.

Is there a way to have RH include a FM paragraph in the TOC, but exclude it from creating a new topic?

[Peter Grainge]

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[Jeff_Coatsworth]

I don't think that you can get RH to create ToC entries that point to places within a topic; what about creating a ToC in FM and bringing that over?

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

Creating a TOC entry that points to a place within a topic is child's play.

Insert a bookmark at the desired topic location.

Create a TOC entry that points to the bookmark!

Cheers... Rick

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Ah, thanks Rick – I’ve never done that in any of my projects. But can you have any sort of auto-TOC generation that picks up both topics and bookmarks within topics? I can see a way of getting the bookmark correctly placed in the resulting RH topic from FM (you’d use a custom marker in FM that you’d have come over into RH), but I don’t know enough about auto-TOC creation to know if they’d get picked up.

[DarrelTenter]

Thanks for the nudge in the right direction. I had created the H1A para style in FM so that I could omit that section from creating a new topic in RH. But I forgot to add H1A to my FM TOC! <forehead_smack> All is well now.

Onward...

Darrel

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Cool, so you decided to use the FM ToC to create the RH TOC then?

[DarrelTenter]

I already had the TOC in FM, along with the index and glossary. I'm transitioning my client to publish online, but they want to keep the PDF publish option. When I brought the FM content to RH and started styling the Responsive HTML5, I wanted to keep the first two H1 sections on the first page of each topic and have the remaining FM heading start new topics. So I created the H1A format in FM and used that for the 2nd heading in FM. Then in the RH conversion settings I set H1 to start a new topic, but not H1A. But the H1A was excluded from the imported and published TOC. I mistakenly assumed that was because I didn't have it set to a new topic also. Once I read the responses here I backed up and realized that it was actually because I didn't add H1A to the FM TOC after I created that para format in FM. Stupid mistake.