TOC Missing

Hi,
I am trying to publish a robohelp project to the intranet and
although my TOC is there and publishes fine when I create a chm it
does not appear on the intranet. The Contents tab is there but
empty. I have the TOC and Index checkbox ticked on my window
description, when I work through the wizard to set up the publish I
have the Contents(defualt) checkbox ticked on the toolbar buttons
page.
Any ideas as to what else I can check, is there some way to
look at the output files and see what is being written, I do not
know which files in the output are my TOC?
Thanks for any help
Erika

Craig,
I am trying to publish the file as web help. The TOC does not
appear when I publish as web help.
If I create a chm file the TOC does appear but as you say I
cannot use a chm over the intranet. This is why we are moving to
the intranet version, all the other projects which I have published
as web versions work fine, it is only this project which does not
show the TOC in the intranet version. Any ideas why?
Thanks
Erika

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