Mini-Toc from Linked FM document (FM10 / RH9)

Hi all,
I'm a newbie in the use of RH, BUT, I'm trying hard
My question might be quite similar to this one : http://forums.adobe.com/message/5301262#5301262
Is there a way, in a RH project created from Linked FM files, to insert a mini-TOC in a document ? Of course, all the mini-TOCs I've inserted in RH have disappeared when I updated my links with FM.
From what I understood in the topic I mentioned, there seems to be no way to do this. BUT, hopefully, has someone found a solution to this problem ?
Thanks a lot
All the best

The only solution from the Rh side is to insert your mini TOC on the header of your Rh master page...
Unfortunately, you may not want the mini TOC above your Topic Title, but that's the only way (I know of to get the content to appear automatically.
Putting it into your Rh topic manually will either restrict your ability to update the Fm content (bad...) or require post processing of the Rh topic after each update (bad...)
My preferred solution: create the mini TOC within your Fm file itself using cross refs, or plugins (Rick Quatro has a FrameScript solution, IIRC) so that the content exists in Fm when you update the Rh project.
-Matt
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