Table of contents - Troubleshooting Defining Levels

I am trying to crate a TOC, with 2 levels of information. The 1st level is the Chapter Heading (no page number), followed by the contents under each chapter heading (with page number). The sequence works fine for all left-facing pages, but not for right facing pages. Indesign changes the hierarchy of information and ignores that the 1st level of information should go first, for example the contents for 'Chapter 1' will come before the 'Chapter 1' heading. I have tried various things, and still can't work it out. I find it strange that this applies only to information on right-facing pages. Can anyone help? Thanks

It might have to do with how InDesign looks for things to include. Frame positions are critical as ID starts in the upper left corner of the page and looks downward before looking to the right, and looks for the upper left corner of the frames, so a small frame aligned to the right margin at the top of the page will be picked up after any frame touching the left margin.
You may need to adjust frame widths and and text insets.
Peter

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Table of contents troubleshooting

Newly generated TOC looks great, except for a gap in the middle as shown below. I would guess this comes either from bad code in the TOC, or from incorrect coding in the text - somewhere I've told it to add several line breaks. But I can't find any such wrong information, so maybe I'm on wrong path?
How to get ch. 5 to join ch. 4? Backspacing doesn't work. I can force the gap shut using "up-kerning" (?) - but I bet that's dangerous in an automatically generated doc.
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Yeah, I thought there might be blank paras there too, but I'm not seeing any. See full image below.
I tried making some text end of ch 4 also into b-level heads, so they'd show in the TOC, and it seems clear the problem lies between the final text of ch 4 and start of ch 5. Except there's nothing there - see below. Appearing above the title of ch 5 is a mark for space, from the layer underneath the actual ch. 5. I thought that might be the problem, except that's the same layout used by all other chap openers, and the problem is only in ch 4 / 5.
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Financial Reporting Books Table of Content

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i've created a financial reporting book and i want to/have to insert a title page (pdf file). The table of content is always created in front of this title page. I tried to modify xml statements in the book file but there isn't a setting which defines the order of Table of Content and the other included book files. Does anyone know if there is a command to do that. Or is there somewhere some kind of style sheet where the table of content is defined?
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After looking at this a bit more, this may or may not work so we might need to get dirty on this one .....................
Some clues can be found here : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-publisher/bip-bookbinding-176639.pdf
Looking at Page 7, it should be obvious that we can add additional deatils to the reports, including cover pages.
Though, after looking at Page 8, I think I may have you slightly in the wrong direction. toc-template appears to simply cover the commands for the table of contents and there is another template to control everything. But is that file visible to edit?
If you run FRConfig.cmd, you can find more clues.
Go to the MBeans tab, expand com.hyperion, then expand Financial Reporting, and Attributes.
The two attributes that immeidately jump out are TextPrintTemplate and BookTOCPrintTemplate
- TextPrintTemplate is the FR_TextTemplate.doc file in <<EPM_ORACLE_INSTANCE>>/products/FinancialReporting/bin/ folder
- BookTOCPrintTemplate is the toc-template.rtf file previously discussed.
Once again, though, the other template exposed to us is most likely just driving the content and is not at a high enough definition level for this to work how you want it to.
I would say to use the example in the PDF and try adding that to the table of contents page before it does all of the loops. Perhaps it will work from there, perhaps not.
If that doesn't work, Thursday we can attempt to drill into this more.
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How to get chapter numbering in table of contents?

In a document I create, I use numbering for chapter titles, paragraphs and so on. They do appear in the table of contents, for each level I indicate, but in this table of contents, the numbering is not reflected. Only the first chapter has a number in front of it, all others don't.

I have the same problem in Pages 5.0. Just posted about that here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5755623?tstart=0
I am not sure about 4.0, I thought I never had any problem with it but I might have added it manual. With that stats fruhulda probably knows best.
Anyway isnt it strange that a wordeditor can't show automaticly added numbers for chapters?

Problem with automatic table of contents Level headings

I am having trouble with the Table of contents in Adobe Indesign. When I create my automatic table of contents one of the Level headings that is supposed to appear under Chapter 1 instead appears under the Introduction heading. On the actual page where the heading paragraph styles have been defined the 2nd Level heading is as it should be underneath Chapter 1. So what I end up having to do is move them manually in the TOC. But I don’t want to have to do this and it would be great if Indesign instead did the automatic table of contents correctly.
I wonder if it has anything to with the fact that our template is set up with headings (that sit outside the body text to the left) as text boxes which we place inside the main body text box (they have anchored object settings on them so the heading sits off to the side). Whilst the anchored text box is exactly in the right sequence, maybe indesign senses and reads the anchored text box last?
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I've been playing with this for a while, and quite honestly I don't understand why it's doing things the way it is. It's working correctly on Page 11, which seems to me to have exactly the same structure, except for the subtitle. It also works correctly if I copy the frames from page 14 and paste into a new doc.
Things I tried that did not work: Export as .inx and move the pages to a new doc. You might try copying the text and pasting into a new doc.

Table Of Contents - Level Formatting

InDesign CS3
Ive created a long document that catalogs all of my company's graphic options for our motorcycles.
Each page contains 2 graphics along with their respective part number and graphic name. The part number and graphic name for each graphic are set in 2 separate text boxes and setup as 2 different paragraph styles.
Im trying to create a Table Of Contents that lists, by section, the part number, graphic name and page number for every graphic. Currently my TOC looks like this:
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Part Number
Graphic Name5
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Section
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(editted) So it turns out that you can 'expand' a table of contents by copying and pasting it - this fills the hyperlinks panel with links that can be editted (like above) but breaks the auto-update - they're no longer a TOC, they're just a text frame full of links. (I had got different copies mixed up when I thought the frame holding the editable links was also auto-updating)
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Then, if you make other changes to the document later on, delete the dead copy, update and re-copy the live original, and re-do the changes to the new copy
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Table of content level limit

how can I display more than 3 level in a TOC webpart?
can I just modify the xsl to achieve this?

Hi,
try the below link
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/20952/add-more-levels-to-the-table-of-contents-web-part
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Setting aggregation content for logical level in 11g

Hi Guys,
When working on with horizontal and vertical federation in OBIEE 11g with multiple data sources here in my case it is essbase and RDBMS.
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2) The related heirarchies have been defined.
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Edited by: Kranthi.K on Sep 5, 2011 2:52 AM

It is autocreated,i dint customize it.....Im dropping the RDBMS table onto the Essbase cube dimension table and im not getting the RDBMS content levels that should be defined in the LTS of the table,and the RDBMS table has an level based hierarchy but still no sucess.
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UPDATED POST
Deepak,it was not helpful as i have gone through tht document before....Im trying it in all scenerios to figure out where actually it is going wrong.
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Since both fact tables are at same granular level I would suggest to map each other (Signon_A maping Signon_B) in BMM layer logical fact @source.
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Manipulate table of contents results

Hi everyone,
Within each chapter of a book I’m working on, there are level 1 headings that look like the following:
¶5-100 Context
So each of these headings has a paragraph number, ie. ¶5-100 and then the name of the heading, ie. Context. There’s a tab between the para number and the content of the heading.
I need to create a specific chapter by chapter table of contents using the content of these level 1 headings. The information will be located at the start of each chapter.
It’s easy enough to do but when the TOC is genereated I get the following effect:
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I don’t need the page numbers at all and instead of the above, I need the following result:
Context [tab] ¶5-100
next heading [tab] ¶5-120
next heading [tab] ¶5-140
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So is there a way to manipulate the results so that the headings appear as the above? I know it probably can’t be done but just thought I’d ask incase I’m missing something.
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[Jongware] wrote:
b. Use this Nested Style:
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In the past I've successfully created tables of contents. I created the necessary styles just as I would any other style. I just now noticed a menu item called table of contents styles under Layouts. What's this for? Why is it necessary?

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Changes in the document are reflected automatically (after actualization) in the TOC.
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Span columns problem with Table of Contents order

Hello,
I'm having a strange issue with headings that span columns and Table of contents order. My document has a heading paragraph in a coloured box, which is then inserted in-line into a 2-column text box. The paragraph style for the box (set to in-line) is set to span all columns, so that the 2-columned text doesn't get messed up.
When I create a table of contents, the Heading style that is inside the coloured box is being picked up fine, but even though it is inserted before the headings below it, it is showing up after the level 2 headings, instead of before.
I have confirmed that the insertion of the blue bar is before the text below it, as when I remove the span columns option, the TOC works as it is supposed to. Is this a bug?

Hi there, thanks for the reply.
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