Creating and editing a Table of Contents (TOC) Frame

Table of Contents (TOC) Frames are used for inserting an automatically generated Table of Contents. A TOC Frame must be placed on each master page that is defined in a TOC Section (see Types of Typefi Sections).

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• How do TOC Frames work?
• Scope: a TOC for the entire document versus a TOC for a subset of the document
• Create a TOC Frame
• Edit a TOC style assigned to a TOC Frame

How do TOC Frames work? ↩

Each TOC Frame is assigned an InDesign Table of Contents style, which is used to generate the TOC during the automated page composition process. Typefi builds on InDesign’s native feature for generating a TOC. After all the pages have been composed, the TOC Frames are populated with data from their corresponding TOC style, creating new document pages and filling these frames, until all TOC content is placed. This is because all of the source data that is going to be used to populate the TOC frames must be laid out in the paginated document first so that their assigned page location is known.

NOTE Since TOC Sections are generated in the last step of the page composition process, the first Main Story Section following a TOC Section is forced to start on the right side and does not allow pages to 'shuffle'. As a result, a filler master may be inserted after a TOC Section.

🔑  Key concepts:

1. Data that fills the TOC Frames is based on the InDesign TOC style assigned to the frames.
2. Pagination of TOC Frames occurs after all other pages have been composed.
3. The first page after a TOC always starts on the right (in facing pages templates).

Scope: a TOC for the entire document versus a TOC for a subset of the document ↩

You can use a TOC Frame to generate a TOC for the entire document or a subset of the document.

• Entire document: The TOC Frame must be part of a Typefi TOC Section.
• Subset of the document: The TOC Frame must exist on a master page that is part of a Main Story Section. Each subset is produced as an individual InDesign document that will ultimately be bound into a book (see the Create InDesign book workflow action). 

Create a TOC Frame ↩

1. Create or import a TOC style (Layout → Table of Contents Style). Refer to Create TOC styles for multiple lists.
2. Open the Pages panel (Window → Pages) and select a master page.
   
3. Create an InDesign text frame and select it.
   
4. Choose Object → Typefi Frame Type → Table of Contents. Alternatively, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (macOS) the selected frame and choose Typefi Frame Type → Table of Contents from the shortcut menu.
5. In the Table of Contents Options dialog, choose a TOC style from the Table of Contents Style menu.
   
6. Click OK to apply the settings. The TOC frame border is assigned a colour (dark blue by default). The name of the assigned TOC style is displayed in the bottom-left corner of the TOC frame.
   

TIP If you have created specific paragraph styles for formatting a Table of Contents, consider placing them into a separate Style Group (with Export To TemplateXML disabled), so they are not accessible in Typefi Writer.

Edit a TOC style assigned to a TOC Frame ↩

1. Select a TOC Frame.
2. Choose Object → Typefi Frame Options. Alternatively, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (macOS) the selected frame and choose Typefi Frame Options from the shortcut menu.
3. In the Table of Contents Options dialog, choose a TOC style from the Table of Contents Style menu.
4. Click OK to apply the new settings.