Generated TOC entries appear in wrong chapter

[Mary Saifuku]

Richard,

Thanks for your reply. I think I do understand the role of master pages and
I wasn't trying to connect a master page frame to a body page frame.

As you suspected, I had a chapter title text frame on the body page instead
of the master page. That's why Tori's suggestion worked...I changed the
order in which FM scans these flows.

The better method is to do what you suggested...have the chapter title text
frame on the master page as part of flow A and have it connected to the main
text frame. I will do this from this point forward. Due to time constraints,
I was using Tori's quick fix for now, but I'll use the better option from
now on.

Again, many thanks for helping me out. Sorry if I wasn't clear in my email.

Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 1:16 PM
To: 'Mary Saifuku'
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Generated TOC entries appear in wrong chapter

Mary Saifuku wrote:
 
> Thanks, Jeremy, for shedding light on this. In my files, the chapter title
> is in a text frame on the first page, not on the First master page.
> 
> Per Tori's suggestion, I modified my chapter template by selecting the
text
> frame with the title, right-clicking, and choosing Send to Back. This
> solves
> the problem.
> 
> Is there an advantage to putting the text frame on the First master page
> and
> connecting the frame with the title to the body text frame?

I'm afraid you've misunderstood Jeremy (and maybe the nature/role of master
pages?). You can't connect a master page frame to a body page frame. Master
pages are the _templates_ from which your body pages are created. 

The first page of your chapter apparently contains two disconnected text
flows. Using Tori's suggestion, you've changed the order in which FM scans
those flows. Jeremy was suggesting a more fundamental solution: don't use
two separate flows. Connect the text frames so that pressing Enter at the
end of the chapter title creates a new paragraph in the main ("body text")
frame below it. 

The help and manual contain information about text flows and
connecting/disconnecting them. But probably the simplest way to do this in
your situation is to recreate the main ("body text") frame on the First
master page. 

First, delete the main ("body text") frame. Next, make sure the text frame
for the chapter title has Autoconnect turned on and its flow tag is A. Then,
recreate the main text frame. In the Add New Text Frame dialog, select
Template for Body Page Text Frame and set Flow Tag to A. FM informs you that
the new text frame has been connected to the end of flow A. 

Now, pages that use the First master page will have only one text flow
instead of two. 

NOTE: This assumes that you didn't just add the chapter title text frame to
the body page instead of the master page. If you did that, you'll have to
reapply the First master page to fix it. 

HTH!

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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