Adobe RoboHelp: Merging TOCs

Fortunately, using RoboHelp’s multiple TOC feature, we can optimize the workflow by merging.

Setting up a TOC for Merging

On the Project Manager pod, open the Table of Contents folder. Then right-click the Table of Contents folder and choose New Table of Contents.

Give the new TOC a name and click OK. In this sample, I call mine Introduction.

The new TOC opens automatically.

In the TOC, add the content that you want to share. In my case, it is just the Getting started topic.

Using the new TOC

With the TOC set up with all common content, you can embed the new TOC.

Go to the main TOC and select the location of the shared content. In my case, this is the Getting started topic. Click Insert TOC Placeholder at the top of the Table of Contents pod.

On the Insert TOC Placeholder dialog box, select the Table of Contents you want to include. Then click OK to add a Placeholder.

Remove the common content from the TOC and then repeat these steps for every location where you want to include the common content.

Once you have set up the project, generate the output. For your reader, the TOC will look as if nothing happened. However, if you change the name of the topic, you only have a single TOC to update.