Exclude Header (only) from ToC

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Aitch
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Exclude Header (only) from ToC

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Hi all,

I am asking a really silly question, I know, but I've searched the online help, and maybe I'm just not entering the correct term?

I have a couple of topics (eg. Preface) which I don't want the header to show in the Table of Contents, but the topic should be in the pdf / manual.

How do I set this?
Thanks
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Re: Exclude Header (only) from ToC

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Hi Aitch,
I have a couple of topics (eg. Preface) which I don't want the header to show in the Table of Contents, but the topic should be in the pdf / manual.
That's not possible without a trick, because unlike WebHelp a PDF is a single document. That means you can't have "hidden" files. If a topic isn't in the PDF TOC, then it's also not in the PDF. You can achieve what you want as follows:

First, exclude the topic from the PDF in the TOC with a build option. Then insert the topic in the previous topic as a linked snippet with a header above it to match the normal headers generated for topics in your PDF. Finally, enclose the header and the linked snippt in a conditional text build option so that they are only included in PDF. 8)
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