Programmatically add a navigation pane to Framemaker

Hi everybody,
When you edit a Framemaker file (in unstructured mode), it would be nice to have side pane that shows the file structure based (like a mini TOC). This feature has been implemented in Word 2010 and it is very helpful.
My question is: Is it possible to programmatically add such a navigation pane to Framemaker?
TIA,
Roman

Thanks for refreshing my small chunk of FrameMaker community memory, Arnis. I was thinking of Enhance, and, though I have used and often refer to Silicon Prairie Software's great and inexpensive FM paragraph, character, and indexing plug-ins, I completely forgot that there was an outliner as well.
I was thinking of a technique I played with occasionally to simulate an outline, which is to use the cross-reference dialog box to filter a document by paragraph format. The page range of items in the scrolling window helps locate the source paragraphs within the container document. One advantage over an outliner is that you can see within any open document, not just the currently-active one.
I have thought of, but haven't tried, opening multiple fFrameMaker sessions and using the cross-reference dialog box to navigate a document in one session and working with the active document in another current session. Working from my memory without FM open in front of me, I'd expect opening a second instance of a document in a second session would display the "document in use" dialog; choosing to open a copy for editing or a read-only copy should avoid damaging the active working instance.
Re-reading before sending reminds me of another option, namely generating a list of paragraphs with hyperlinks. As with a TOC, you can specify which paragraph formats to extract. Using the FrameMaker "hyperclick" Ctrl+Alt+Click on a hyperlink or cross-reference in a FM document moves the insertion point to the source of that link. You can have multiple generated lists, each with more or fewer paragraph formats, for different navigation granularity. Generating the list from a book provides cross-document navigation.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
Arnis Gubins wrote:
That was the "Enhance" plug-in from SandyBrook Software (http://www.sandybrook.com/). Unfortunately, it hasn't been update since FM7.2 on XP.
There's also Steve Kubis' Outline Tool available from Silicon Prairie Software at: http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html

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