Requirement to display 2 TOC levels and 4 miniTOC levels

[AndyS]

This is my first Flare project and so apologies if this has been asked before, but is there a way of displaying different levels between the main TOC and the miniTOC. My requirement is to limit the main TOC to show just 2 heading levels, and the miniTOC to display up to four heading levels. For example:

Main TOC:
1 Heading 1
2 Heading 1
2.1 Heading 2
2.2 Heading 2
3 Heading 1
3.1 Heading 2
4 Heading 1

miniTOC (in, for example, chapter 2):
2.1 Heading 2
2.1.1 Heading 3
2.1.2 Heading 3
2.1.3 Heading 3
2.2 Heading 2
2.2.1 Heading 3


The output is for PDF. The stylesheet has been amended for both default and print mediums, using h1-h4, p.MiniTOC1-4, p.TOC1-4, and setting the mc-toc-depth and mc-heading-level attributes. I've even set the "Use TOC depth for heading levels" attribute in the Advanced tab of the target output, but to no avail.

Any suggestions?

[lacastle]

To get only 2 levels in your TOC, only include 2 levels there.
I think the miniTOC will include any headings below the current heading (if you put the miniTOCproxy under an H1, H2, H3, etc will be included; if you put the miniTOCproxy under an H2, only H3, H4, etc will be included). If you use various levels of headings, they should show up in a miniTOC.

here is some information from the flare help about miniTOC - http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... _Proxy.htm

[AndyS]

Thanks Laura for your input.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work, which is probably down to me misunderstanding some of the basics (

You stated "To get only 2 levels in your TOC, only include 2 levels there." This I do by setting the mc-heading-level attributes for h1 - h6. For example, to display just two heading levels, I set mc-heading-level to 1 and 2 for h1 and h2 respectively, and for the rest, I set mc-heading-level to 0:

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h1
{
	...
	mc-heading-level: 1;
	...
}

h2
{
	...
	mc-heading-level: 2;
	...
}

h3
{
	...
	mc-heading-level: 0;
	...
}

h4
{
	...
	mc-heading-level: 0;
	...
}

h5
{
	...
	mc-heading-level: 0;
	...
}

h6
{
	...
	mc-heading-level: 0;
	...
}

This works great for the main TOC, and displays h1 and h2 headings, as per requirements.

Next, I add a miniTOC proxy to the start of all my chapters (below the heading 1), and set the number of heading levels I wish to be displayed in the miniTOC (4 in my case). However, when I build the PDF, the miniTOCs only display the heading 2 levels although I did set them to display 4. After a little playing around, I found out that if I set the mc-heading-level for h1 - h6 back to 1 - 6 respectively, then my miniTOCs display more headings. In other words, the miniTOC seems dependent on the mc-heading-level assigned to h1-h6 which seems counter-intuitive, and furthermore implies that I can't display more headings in the miniTOC than there is in the main TOC!?

Any thoughts? I'm still presuming that this can be attained, although I haven't seen any examples in the Help yet.

[lacastle]

What kind of output are you making? the mc-heading-level applies to TOCproxies and miniTOCproxies. i was suggesting that you only physically add the appropriate headings to your TOC (for webhelp/online).

here is some information in the help about TOC/miniTOC proxies. (i have to leave work now, but i can look more at this tomorrow.)
http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... _Proxy.htm
http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... _Proxy.htm

[AndyS]

The medium is Print (PDF) and I'm using both TOC and miniTOC proxies.

Thanks for the links, and your replies

[AndyS]

Hey Laura - if it helps, I can send an example project to you? It might explain things a little clearer than I can.