Live TOC doesn't work for me

studiovaldman

I recently purchased the Live TOC script and cannot get it to work. I followed the instructions given on the site but to no avail. All of the page numbers become 000.
Do you have a suggestion? Or perhaps there is a more detailed set of instructions?

Ariel

Hi,
I need to write a full Help page for LiveTOC, as it is a little more complicated to use than most of the scripts. However, until I do that, let's see if we can't get this to work for you.
(1) At the bottom of the LiveTOC widow there's a checkbox called "Display error messages". I recommend turning that on, as it will tell you why things are not working. So please switch it on, and post back with a screenshot of the error message it's showing you. (Once you get used to how LiveTOC works, turn it off, as it can slow things down.)
(2) Could you please post a screenshot of your LiveTOC settings?
(3) Usually, when an existing page number at the end of a table of contents entry is turned into 000, it means that LiveTOC couldn't find an exact match (and it has to be 100% exact) between the text appearing the TOC and the text as it appears at the beginning of the chapter in the main book. To double check this, could you please post a screenshot of one entry in the TOC that's not working, and the equivalent entry in the main document that it's supposed to find? Make sure to show hidden characters too.

studiovaldman

Ariel
Hi Ariel,
I realized that I should only use the script BEFORE making changes in the table of contents, whereupon about half of the entries received the link.
In this case, some of the titles were read correctly by the script (those with a line break in them) while the others were 000 status.

Here's the first error message:

Either no placeholders, or more than one placeholder was found in the currently selected paragraph.
There should be one and only one placeholder ('000') in the paragraph.
The placeholder tells the script where to insert the required page number.

Here's the second error message:

The selected text ("פרקים נא-נב // שיעור ראשון 000") with the desired paragraph style was not found in the document...

and here's an example of one of the titles that were not recognized by the script:

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thanks
Zahava

Ariel

studiovaldman The selected text ("פרקים נא-נב // שיעור ראשון 000") with the desired paragraph style was not found in the document...

Hi Zahava,
Thanks for adding screenshots and more info.
The error message above shows that LiveTOC is searching for the entire phrase "פרקים נא-נב // שיעור ראשון 000", including the 000. An exact match for that clearly does not exist in the book. You don't have 000 in the chapter titles in the book!

The reason it's doing this is that you've told it to search each TOC entry from the "1st" word all the way to the "End of paragraph" -- and that includes the 000! This is wrong in your case.

As you haven't included a screenshot of your TOC, I can't know for sure what character you're using to separate the actual text entry from the 000 at the end. But it's likey to be a Tab or a right-indent Tab. If so, choose the correct option in the "... until this character" dropdown and try again.