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Are you talking about source or output. A screenshot would help.
I have not seen this reported before. Have you tried deleting the CPD file and reopening the project? Perhaps even a machine reboot.
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Bookmarks in topics do show with the topic icon in the TOC editor and in the output.
The TOC you see was auto-created when bookmarks get indented from the topic within a book. I manually created another TOC with the three topics and the bookmark inline and they stayed as a straight list.
So using auto-create, what you are seeing is what I would expect. You can delete the book and the bookmark and then insert them manually so that there are two entries rather than a book which will open the topic and also show the bookmark.
Also in Firefox, the link to the bookmark worked fine.
Can you show us a screenshot of how it used to be from a backup?
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I never use the Auto-Create feature. As you can see below, the Ledger folder was manually moved over to the TOC on a previous date and the topics within work fine. I've also deleted the Company's book and bookmark and manually moved the topic back to the TOC and it still doesn't go to the bookmark when using Firefox. I have also checked that the Unison Spreadsheet topic's properties is structured the same as the Company one, meaning that the bookmark shows up the same way.
Your TOC is created by dragging a folder from Project Manager to the TOC, correct? I haven't tested that but would expect it to work in the same way as Auto Create, for this purpose. It's a bit difficult to see whether Ledger is right or not without knowing the project.
So when you create the way I suggested, it looks as required but has the other issue, it doesn't work. Correct?
I don't have 2015 installed any more so I tested in 2017. I am wondering if this is one of those issues caused by browser updates. I assume you have applied all the 2015 updates.
Can you share the project with me? I can then test in 2017. See the Contact page on my site and send the project as instructed there. Do make sure you include a link to this thread and please do not email the project direct.
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What you have sent is incomplete. It contains the root folder and all its files but the sub-folders are empty. That results in broken links galore and the TOC is going to be pointing to content you haven't sent. I need the whole project to test for you.
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Yes that unzips OK.
Could you please let me have an example with specific steps of something in Project Manager that is coming across to the TOC incorrectly and the output you are seeing this in.
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First let's look at the layout of the TOC.
If you drag the Payable folder across, you will get a TOC that looks like this.
Why? Expand the Project Manager and this is what you will see. No topics visible at this stage, just a subfolder.
When you go to the TOC and click Payable, this is what you will see. Effectively exactly the same.
Now go back to Project Manager and expand Maintenance. You will see the topics all under Maintenance. Also Company has a + sign to indicate there are bookmarks.
Look again at the first image and you are seeing exactly the same thing in both. Folders get converted to Books, also Topics with bookmarks get converted to Books. Doing it that way has, as far as I can recall, always worked that way.
I can't see that anything is wrong at that point but your original post seems to suggest you think it is a change.
Now looking at how links to bookmarks work, I can see the problem here. In the Company page, scroll to the bottom and create a bookmark against Sample. Now go to the Supplier page and create a link to that. Generate and I think you will find the page scrolls down.
What seems to be happening is that if the bookmark is visible, the browser is not scrolling the page so that the bookmark is at the top. It's visible so job done seems to be what is happening. I can only suggest you report that as a bug.
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Only if you report it. I haven't seen anyone else pick up on it.
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Sorry to butt in here, by chance were the original topics part of a Word Import? I recall that odd things can happen when you import a Word document that happens to have an automatic TOC based upon heading styles and you tick the Import option to include the Word-created TOC into the RoboHelp project TOC.
My experience is that the Word doc's heading 1 appears as bookmark icon in the RH Project Manager. Heading 2 shows as a bookmark. However, in RoboHelp the "parent" heading 1 based topic becomes a "Book" and the Heading 2 topics become nested inside the parent book. So the screenshot shows the topic Absences, but the auto-TOC creates a Book and two heading 2-based topics nested inside.
When making an AutoTOC in RH you might also check what you want to do with this tick mark on mid-topic links.
My scenario is not exactly the same as poster JCCS3 so I hope I'm not sending you down a rabbit hole. Still thought I'd pass this odd "as designed" behavior along as a place to look.
John
John Daigle
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