[Issue] Hyperlinks in Table of Contents won't work

chelsea dagger · Post by **chelsea dagger** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:13 pm

Hi!
The situation is the following: I created a clickable ToC in a master document. Sometimes - and I don't know the reason for that - the links to the single chapters won't work, so that I have to remove the hyperlinks and create them anew. What actually makes me think that something must be wrong, is that when I click on "Edit Index/Table" there are many, many "LS" and "LE" buttons in front of the "E" and "E#" button which I actually need to create the hyperlinks. So it looks as if there ARE links already, but they stop working after a while. (Does that make sense?) Anyway, what I would like to do, is set the ToC back to default, so that all of these "LS" and "LE" button will disappear again. How can I do that? Moreover, what do I do wrong? How can I create a clickable ToC which stays as it is. Will the settings change each time I update the ToC? Thanks in advance. C-

Post by **acknak** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:50 pm

chelsea dagger wrote:... what I would like to do, is set the ToC back to default, so that all of these "LS" and "LE" button will disappear again. ...

I don't think there's any way to do that, short of deleting the ToC and starting over.

A link in the ToC should have only one "LS" and one "LE" before and after the text of the link, something like: [LS] [E] [LE]. "LS" means "Link Start", "LE" is "Link End".

You can easily edit the entry template: click on an item and press the delete key to remove any extra LS/LE items.

chelsea dagger · Post by **chelsea dagger** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:34 pm

Well, my structure looks like that: LS LE LS LE LS LE and so on until finally there are E# and E. To create my clickable ToC I click in front of E#, then click on Hyperlink, then click behind E, click on Hyperlink again, then click on All. Done! Thus, between LS and LE there is nothing at all. Moreover, there is no Delete button, so: Any other ideas how I can get rid of the obsolete LS's and LE's? Just to explain: the more often I do that, the more I have to search for E# and E to finally appear behind all those LS and LE, you know. Maybe you're right and I should really just delete the ToC and create a new one. I just wonder how often I will have to do that then... since I still don't have an idea WHY these hyperlinks just stop working...

Post by **acknak** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:32 pm

chelsea dagger wrote:... Moreover, there is no Delete button, ...

Sorry, I wasn't clear: use the "Delete" key on the keyboard.

Click the item in the ToC entry template; it should become highlighted or look "selected" in some way. Now press the Delete key. Repeat for all the "LS" and "LE" items until there is only one of each, LS to start the link, LE to end.

chelsea dagger · Post by **chelsea dagger** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:37 pm

Oh dear, of course! Thanks a million for this very simple answer! Sometimes I just can't think straight. This does still not solve the mystery why the links stop working at some point but it's definitely a very useful hint. Cheers!

Post by **Hagar Delest** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:39 pm

Can you make a sample set of files (master doc + 1 or 2 sub docs) so that we have a look at them (see How to attach a document here)?

chelsea dagger · Post by **chelsea dagger** » Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:23 am

...if only I wasn't told that "The extension odm is not allowed." I could attach an exemplary master. damn!

Post by **Hagar Delest** » Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:27 am

Put it in a .zip (together with a sub doc).

chelsea dagger · Post by **chelsea dagger** » Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:05 am

Here we go-

Post by **Hagar Delest** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:14 pm

Definitively a bug. But the good news is that you only need to update the ToC. No need to recreate it.
BTW: your master doc is somewhat wrong, the files are not correctly registered and I had to re-insert them.

I've filed a report: Bug 121843 - Master document ToC needs to be updated for hyperlinks.

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