Index at end of Book

I am putting together a book. InDesign is all new to me. I can't find any info on how to create an index at the end of the book.

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Creating the index at end of book

I am looking at how to finish my first cook book and realize one of the last touches is to create an index of the terms mentioned in the book. I'm not done yet, so the pages are shifting around a lot as I finish up, so I see there is no point in doing this yet.
I am searching in the forums and the only threads I found in relation to this are pretty dated. The only solution that seems to be discussed is indexbrutal / now Indexmatic on the indiscripts website. I am reading some of the docs, looks a bit complicated to setup. It also doesn't mention compatibility with the current version I am working with (CC). It says "CS5+"...
From what I see, first you have to create your own list of words you want to index, thats fine, I will do that when its time. However, for me the bulk of the work is to assemble the references to each page its on. Is there any built in or more current methods for creating the index at the back of the book?

That would work, but yeah you would think there would be a way to address this more efficiently.
It would be nice to see a bit more sophistication in the panel. It seems to help you index all occurrences of the word but only if you do so when you first enter the word. What if you add more content?
I ran into this concept as well when defining sections. If you edit the pages, the section remains on the page you defined it. I would like to anchor it to the heading on the page it relates to, in case that heading moves, the section would move as well. It seems there as well, its not worth doing this until you are dont with the content of the book. Seems kind of clunky to me.. what about revisions & "2nd editions"... looks to me like you would be best to delete the sections, TOC and index and start over.

Delete Indexes Variant ended with errors in Process chain

Hi experts,
I have a process chain which executes dialy to load data Info Cube we create the index and finally we delete the index after that we have few variants..
Remaining all variants are executed with out errors except delete index variant I checked the error message it shows that <b>" The system has not finished loading request APO_R46PWZHRIA7JS9NOM8X879QEZJ into data target ZUP_CARF1"</b>
It is so happened weekly twice or trice not every day. one day it was running with out any errors and one day this process chan was ended with errors.
I need to know the reason why this variant was executed with errors.?
I need your valule sugestions regarding this issue.
Regards
sailekha

hi sailekha,
therevare some functional constraint of processes.
while deleting indexes
it is not possible to:
                              loading
                              indexes are being built
                              stastics are being built
                              during rollup
                              while compressing
                              while updating.
my be u can check which is the other process chain that does all above oprations in concerned infoprovider.
bye

Indexing problem in address book

When I access address book from .Mac Mail
the list of names in the address book is not indexed
although in .Mac Mail preferences I have the
entries in address book to be displayed as:
Default sort order: first name
Display order : first name and surname.
Anyone has encountered this problem? Any
help appreciated. Thank you.

Hi AA, try this:
Navigate to ~(yourHome)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist and delete that file. Then relaunch AddressBook.
-mj
[email protected]

Audio book stopped burning before end of book completed

I downloaded an audio-book from Audible to iTunes and successfully started to burn discs, however the entire book was not copied and the iTunes burner did not ask for additional discs to be inserted. (six hour book only four hours copied) I don't want to start over is there a way to burn additional discs from where iTunes left off?

Sadly, no change after updating v10.8.5(combo). A normal boot with an attempt to "buy book" from iPhoto, gets almost to the end of the upload and then gives me the following error:
In Safe boot, I get to the beginning of the Assembly process and iPhoto crashes. Here is a portion of the problem details:
I compiled my book on Thursday evening, thinking that would be the painstaking part. Purchasing it has become too much of a time consuming adventure! I did call Apple Technical Support last evening and the service agent suggested that I check the Apple Support Community discussions, so thank you for taking a greater interest in my problem.
One other thing I found regarding problems submitting photobook orders is at the bottom of http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2516. An excerpt from this webpage is below, but I can't find the "NetServices" entry in my Keychain Access window to try this fix. Do you think this is a piece to my puzzle or simply old info as it was last modified on May 24, 2012?
Again, I was able to order a photocard (cancelled the order within 90 minute window) as a test, so I don't believe I have an account problem.
excerpt:
If you are using iPhoto '08 or iPhoto '09 and are unable to submit your order after following the steps above, please follow these steps to reset your Keychain:
Quit iPhoto.
From the Finder menu bar, choose Go > Utilities to access your Utilities folder (or press Shift-Command-U).
In your Utilities folder, open Keychain Access.
Find the "NetServices" entry in your Keychain Access window.
Select the "NetServices" entry and press the delete key.
Reopen iPhoto and attempt to place your order again.
You should be prompted to enter your account information if you deleted the Keychain entry successfully.
After entering your account information, you should be able to complete your order.
If you are unsuccessful with submitting your order, please contact Apple Technical Support.

Wrong name in email address and damaged index in address book

I have experienced this problem for months now. I have a Mac Pro at the office and MacBook Pro at home. The address book is synced with .mac. At random I will receive emails and the mail program will attach the wrong name with the address ( John doe [email protected] will be displayed as mary smith [email protected] ) this also happens in mail I have sent and copied myself on. The incorrect name is usually one that exist in my address book. The second part of the problem which may be related is the index for both address books will get damaged. Every few days I have to discard the address book index file ( AddressBook-v22.abcddb ) which fixes the index issue for a few days. The computers nor the applications ever crash. I wonder if the .mac syncing could be key to both computers having index issues. Rebuilding the address index does not fix the wrong name issue. Both computers are 10.5.2. I feel there is some deeper corruption issue that rebuilding that one index file does not correct. I have also rebuilt all the mail boxes.

SOLUTION: my ultimate solution to the address book confusing contact info in ichat, mail, etc. was to go to ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ and delete the AddressBook-v22.abcddb file. back up your contacts first!!! but after you delete and relaunch, Address Book will rebuild using the info from the Metadata folder. worked like a charm.
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Address book applescripting - slows computer via memory drain

Hi,
i've just got my new gleaming macbook pro - a return to mac after ~16 years. whew.
I was a heavy user of categories and contacts in outlook - had two contact folders, A and B, with categories in each. Additionally for some categories there is a third field - location. In total there are 2500 contacts I deal with.
To import my contacts was not trivial - i used little creatures O2M to bring over my messages, which worked well, but didn't give as great a result on contacts (lost a lot of fields). Then I used Abee on a csv file and found it was great - well worth the $10.
I mapped my custom fields to related names custom fields.
After a lot of reading i think that the best location for user defined fields (in my case group, category, and location) is as a custom named URL. This allows me to make Smart groups in address book to sort through these categories.
So I wrote some applescript to move info from related names to URL fields. It steps through everyone in my address book and if the label "Group" exists in related names and the value is "B" then add a new URL and delete the related name label.
The script is:
tell application "Address Book"
try
repeat with this_person in every person
set namestoremove to {}
repeat with this_label in (get related name of this_person)
if the label of this_label = "Group" and the value of this_label = "B" then
make new url at end of urls of this_person with properties {label:"Group", value:"GroupB"}
--properties of this_label
set namestoremove to namestoremove & (id of this_label)
--delete (related names of this_person whose id is id of this_label)
end if
end repeat
repeat with name_id in namestoremove
delete (related names of this_person whose id is name_id)
end repeat
save
end repeat
save
end try
end tell
I have to acknowledge Trevor Harmon scripts for giving guidelines.
I had to add the get statements to resolve properly the related names of the person
The script works well on a small address book, but on the full book it slows to a crawl and stops.
Of course I could re-import using abee - but that wont help me learn about address book scripts.
Anyone see any problems that would cause the script to slow to a crawl? I assume its somehow consuming memory....

Hello
Accessing item in large list can be very slow in AppleScript unless appropriate coding method is used. Also the 'whose' filter can be very slow in filtering large collection of objects (though I doubt it is the case here).
Anyway, you may try something like the script below which avoids the 'whose' filter.
(NOT tested, for my environment is too for this.)
--SCRIPT 1
tell application "Address Book"
repeat with p in (get every person)
set p to p's contents -- # dereference the list item reference [1]
tell p
repeat with r in (get its related names)
set r to r's contents -- # derefenence the list item reference [1]
if r's label = "Group" and r's value = "B" then
make new url at end of urls with properties {label:"Group", value:"GroupB"}
delete r
--delete related name id (get r's id) -- # alternative to the above [2]
end if
end repeat
end tell
--save addressbook
end repeat
save addressbook
end tell
[1] Dereferening the list item reference is costly operation in AppleScript.
So dereferece it once (especially if it is used more than once in the iteration).
[2] Use 'by ID' reference form if the 'delete r' does not work properly.
(E.g., if r is in 'by index' reference form and there're multiple related names,
'delete r' won't work properly due to changing index.)
--END OF SCRIPT 1
Or the following one which, in addition, implements a fast method to process large list.
--SCRIPT 1a
main()
on main()
script o
property pp : {} -- # define large list as script object's property
property rr : {} -- # idem
tell application "Address Book"
set pp to get every person
repeat with p in my pp -- # use refenence to script object's property (i.e. my pp)
set p to p's contents -- # dereference the list item reference [1]
tell p
set rr to get its related names
repeat with r in my rr -- # use refenence to script object's property (i.e. my rr)
set r to r's contents -- # dereference the list item reference [1]
if r's label = "Group" and r's value = "B" then
make new url at end of urls with properties {label:"Group", value:"GroupB"}
delete r
--delete related name id (get r's id) -- # alternative to the above [2]
end if
end repeat
end tell
--save addressbook
end repeat
save addressbook
end tell
end script
tell o to run
end main
[1] Dereferening the list item reference is costly operation in AppleScript.
So dereferece it once (especially if it is used more than once in the iteration).
[2] Use 'by ID' reference form if the 'delete r' does not work properly.
(E.g., if r is in 'by index' reference form and there're multiple related names,
'delete r' won't work properly due to changing index.)
--END OF SCRIPT 1a
Hope this may help,
H

InDesign CS3 Index problem

I am trying to combine the indexes of several 30-40 pg. stories in an inDesign CS3 book for print; however, once I minimize the story and try to paste its index into a separate blank document, the cursor is no longer "loaded." It seems that the only way I can create an index is at the end of each individual story, then paste them all into a document and manually alphabetize them. Is there a method by which I can create the index for the entire book at one time?

The help file says you can index the whole book:
Long document features / Creating an index
Generate an index
Once youve added index entries and previewed them in the Index panel,
youre ready to generate an index story to place in your document for
publication.
An index story can appear as a separate document or in an existing
document. When you generate an index story, InDesign compiles index
entries and updates page numbers across your document or book. If you
add or delete index entries or update numbering in your document,
however, youll need to regenerate the index to update it.
If an index marker appears in overset text when you generate the index,
you are asked if you would like to include these markers in the index.
If you click Yes, the entry appears in the index without a page number.
etc

Address Book *frozen* after inserting the search string second character

Bonjour !
What can I do to retreive a new life with my Adress Book ?
The search is going with "upgrading index" without ending !
Thrashing the Preferences com.apple.addressbook plist doesn't make any better.
Merci.
PowerMac 7500 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I have exactly the same problem. working ok on mac air but imac, no. I have also done the same with permissions and deleted the cache file... still no change.... I also have heaps of duplicates and half entries etc but I am mainly concerned about getting the thing to search properly at this stage... any ideas GLADLY ACCEPTED. Have you since solved your problem Jo?

What is the difference between Topic Keywords and Index File Keywords?

What is the difference between Topic Keywords and Index File Keywords? Any advantages to using one over the other? Do they appear differently in the generated index?
RH9.0.2.271
I'm using Webhelp

Hi there
When you create a RoboHelp project you end up with many different ancillary files that are used to store different bits of information. Many of these files bear the name you assigned to the project at the time you created it. The index file has the project name and it ends with a .HHK file extension. (HHK meaning HTML Help Keywords)
Generally, unless you change RoboHelp's settings, you add keywords to this file and associate topics to the keywords via the Index pod. At the time you compile a CHM or generate other types of output, the file is consulted and the index is built.
As I said earlier, the default is to add keywords to the Index file until you configure RoboHelp to add the keywords to the topics themselves. Once you change this, any keyword added will become a META tag in the topic code. If your keyword is BOFFO, the META tag would look like this:
<meta name="MS-HKWD" content="BOFFO" />
When the help is compiled or generated, the Index (.HHK) file is consulted as normal, but any topics containing keywords added in this manner are also added to the Index you end up with. From the appearance perspective, the end user woudn't know the difference or be able to tell. Heck, if all you ever did was interact with the Index pod, you, as an author wouldn't know either. Well, other than the fact that the icons appear differently.
Operationally, keywords added to the topics themselves may hold an advantage in that if you were to import these topics into other projects, the Index keywords would already be present.
Hopefully this helps... Rick

Creating an index in InDesign CS3 - is there any way to limit where and for what it looks?

I'm creating an index for a 300-page book using InDesign CS3 on both a PC with Windows XP home and a MacPro with OS X Leopard (I take this book back and forth between these two computers). I have created this as a book (.indb) file so I can use the Index panel with the book option checked to include all of the book chapters.
There are two things I was wondering how to do, if they can be done at all.
1 - I want the index to look for entries in the main pages only, not in the master pages.
2 - I'd like to be able to do only attributed text. For example, I'd like the index to find only the word people when it is bold and italic, and not all of the other places it may occur. Can I do this with a style also, paragraph and/or character?
Thanks so much,
Marcy

Read http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WS8721440D-5F68-4fd6-8115-CA3BEDACF001a.html (the online Help on indexes) -- it will probably answer a few questions.
One I do know immediately is your question on "picking up" stuff from master pages and only with formatting. InDesign does not make an index for you -- you have to (oh! manual labor!) mark the words that should appear in the index yourself. So just don't mark them on master pages, or when not bold and/or italic. You might be wondering about that little button "Mark all instances", well, it does what it say, and in your case you do not want to mark all instances.
The Capitalization issue is, AFAICR, somewhere in the Help; and so is your singular/plural stuff. The latter one is easy solved: if you mark a word to be indexed, ID asks you in a friendly dialog how it should be included, and that defaults to the current selected phrase, but you are free to edit the text in that dialog. ID does not mark the word or phrase; it inserts an invisible marker inside the to-be-indexed word that contains all information you enter in the Add Index Entry dialog, and it uses that to determine what page number to add. (That invisible marker is visible with "Show Invisible Characters", and can be cut, pasted and deleted at will -- so to remove a water melon, find the marker, and delete it.)

A book file in InDesign CS3 (.indb) - Mac and PC - crashing issue

Several months ago, I posted that when I indexed a 300-page book with lots of chapter, generating the index crashed InDesign. This happened initially on a PC running Windows XP home. When I took the book to a Macintosh, it happened also.
One thing I had done, and I don't know if this makes a difference, is changed words that already had index tags attached to them.
It has been several months since I've tried this - I've been waiting until this book was completely written before trying again.
Since this happened, I've also tried to synchronize styles and that also crashed InDesign. Before the index 'broke', both generating the index and synchronizing styles worked like perfectly - amazing functions of InDesign and makes working with a book much easier.
Now the book is ready. I stripped all of the index codes from the entire book using search and replace, and then the first time I tried to open the Index window, it crashed again.
When it recovered, there was a message that 5 of my 24 documents in this book may be damaged.
So I tried opening the indb file, opening the Indexing window, THEN opening the book files and it crashed. I was able to get the error message this time: An exception unkown software exception (0xc000000d) ocurred in the application at location 0x78138aa0. Click OK to terminate the program.
When InDesign came back up, I closed the Index window and was able to open all of the book's files with no problem.
My questions are:
1 - Is there any way to find out where/how those files are damaged?
2 - Does anyone know what may cause an Index generation or style synchronization to crash InDesign - and then not fix the problem?
3 - Could this be something other than the index, and how do I figure out what it might be?
This book is now 374 pages in 24 documents, and I don't think there is a way to go backwards in the InDesign process at this point.
I'm not sure how clear I'm being with all of this, but the book is to go to the printer Monday and I can't index it.
I'd appreciate any help I can get.
Thanks so much,
Marcy

Just to add to Eugene's recommendation. Q2ID is worth every last dime of the $200 it cost.
I just upgraded to the latest version when I received 25 Quark files to convert for an iPad app. Even for early Quark files that InDesign can open, it does a better job.
BTW, it's also worth noting here that Adobe cannot legally have InDesign open anything later than Quark 4.x files due to the encryption used in Quark 5 and later files. Quark is too dependent on Markzware for XTensions to go after them.
Bob

Index creation online - performance impact on database

hi,
I have oracle 11.1.0.7 database running on Linux as 3 node RAC.
I have a huge table which has more than 255 columns and is about 400GB in size which is also highly fragmented because of constant DML activities.
Questions:
1. For now i am trying to create an index Online while the business applications are running.
Will there be any performance impact on the database to create index Online on a single column of a table 'TBL' while applications are active against the same table? So basically my question will index creation on a object during DML operations on the same object have performance impact on the database? is there a major performance impact difference in the database in creating index online and not online?
2. I tried to build an index on a column which has NULL value on this same table 'TBL' which has more than 255 columns and is about 400GB in size highly fragmented and has about 140 million rows.
I requested the applications to be shutdown, but the index creation with parallel of 4 a least took more than 6 hours to complete.
We have a Pre-Prod database which has the exported and imported copy of the Prod data. So the pre-Prod is a highly de-fragmented copy of the Prod.
When i created the same index on the same column with NULL, it only took 15 minutes to complete.
Not sure why on a highly fragmented copy of Prod it took more than 6 hours compared to highly defragmented copy of Pre-Prod where the index creation took only 15 minutes.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
Thanks.
Phil.

How are you measuring the "fragmentation" of the table ?
Is the pre-prod database running single instance or RAC ?
Did you collect any workload stats (AWR / Statspack) on the pre-prod and production systems while creating (or failing to create) the index ?
Did you check whether the index creation ended up in-memory, single pass or multi pass in in the two environments ?
The commonest explanation for this type of difference is two-fold:
a) the older data needs a lot of delayed block cleanout, which results in a lot of random I/O to the undo tablespace - slowing down I/O generally
b) the newer end of the table is subject to lots of change, so needs a lot of work relating to read-consistency - which also means I/O on the undo system
-- UPDATED: but you did say that you had stopped the application so this bit wouldn't have been relevant.
On top of this, an online (re)build has to lock the table briefly at the start and end of the build, and in a busy system you can wait a long time for the locks to be acquired - and if the system has been busy while the build has been going on it can take quite a long time to apply the journal file to finish the index build.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis

Only a few of rows in the table are indexed without an error message

When I executed the sql command:"create index ... indextype is ctxsys.context...",
only a few of rows were indexed.
The number of rows returned from query clause "select * from table where contains(field,'keyword') " is much less than that returned from "select * from table where field like '%keyword%'",though its speed is very fast.
I checked the I table,the indexed words was few.The create index command ends in 3 mins on a table with more than 2 millions rows.
The language setting is Chinese.
The documentations about the intermedia text services on chinese languages is difficult to find.Can someone give me some or help me to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance!

I get the same thing in Mac OSX 10.7.3. When I control-click on a preview and select 'open in camera raw' I get a dialog that says it's not enabled and requires a qualifying app to have been launched first:
I've launched bridge and photoshop and if I open an app from the mini-bridge within photoshop, camera raw is launched.

How to make use of the index in my manual within Acrobat

I've created an index in my FrameMaker book and would like it to be of use when it's converted to PDF.
An index is most useful if it's provided in hard copy. How can I make it useful in Acrobat?
Do I do something within Frame or Acrobat or both?
Also, when I convert my document to PDF with bookmarks, a bookmark does not appear for my index.
I have Acrobat 9 Pro.
Thank you!

In the book file, right-click the index file and select Set up Standard Index. In the subsequent dialog box, select Create Hypertext Links. Click Set. Update the book.
When you print the book, click PDF Setup. In the Links tab, select Create Named Destinations for All Elements and Paragraphs.
To make the Index appear in the bookmarks, check that its paragraph format style is included in the Include paragraphs list in the PDF setup dialog box.
Hope this helps,
Van

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