Setting Up Continuous Numbering for Topics and TOC

[doc_writer]

Hi everyone!

I'm fairly new to Flare and hope this post is in the correct place. I’m trying to set up a project in Flare and need to configure continuous numbering for topics, something like this:

1 Topic 1
1.1 Sub-topic 1
1.1.1 ...
1.1.1.1 ...
1.1.1.1.1 ...

2 Topic 2
2.1 ...
2.1.1 ...

I need the numbering to go up to H5. How can I achieve continuous numbering across topics?

I tried setting the following autonumbering commands (along with 10 other variations that didn’t work ) in the stylesheet:
H1: 'GH:{n+}{ =0} { =0} '
H2: 'GH:{n}.{n+}{ =0} '
H3: 'GH:{n}.{n}.{n+} '
H4: 'GH:{n}.{n}.{n}.{n+} '
H5: 'GH:{n}.{n}.{n}.{n}.{n+} '

I also tried what Daniel Ferguson recommended (see below) on slide 8 here: https://assets.madcapsoftware.com/webin ... pFlare.pdf. The example of the TOC on page 8 that he provided is exactly what I need.

H1: 'CH:{chapnum}. '
H2: 'CH:{chapnum}.{n+} '
H3: 'CH:{chapnum}.{n}.{n+} '
H4: 'CH:{chapnum}.{n}.{n}.{n+} '
H5: 'CH:{chapnum}{n}.{n}.{n}.{n+} '

What am I doing wrong?

I also tried changing the TOC’s section break properties to "Start a new section," but nothing changed.

Also, how do I make the numbering appear in the Table of Contents as well?

I really appreciate your help and guidance to get me on the right track! Cheers!

[robdocsmith]

Hi,

You're close...
The second example should work correctly with the chapnum variable in the styles. As well as starting a new section (which really only changes what page layout is applied at each section), did you change the Auto-Number section to have the first chapter opening topic as "Reset to 1", all over topics subsequent to that as "Same as previous" apart from those that start a new chapter - those need to be set to "Increment number" for Chapter Number. Numbering itself comes from a TOC property for each topic. The formatting of the numbering comes from the style for the headings.

Rob

[robdocsmith]

... just to add...
that correct auto-numbering won't be visible in the XML Editor or the topic preview pane. It will only be correct in the output as numbering is constructed from the TOC structure.

[doc_writer]

Sorry for the late reply! Your recommendation worked, thanks a lot!