Publisher -- Index -- Importing List of Topics?

[000]

Does anyone know if and how it's possible to import a text file into the Index panel (I've got a list of appx. 200 topics and don't want to add them manually if at all possible)?

[walt.farrell]

It's not possible.

[MikeTO]

Why would you want to do this? You'd still need to insert at least one index marker for each topic and isn't it just as easy to type the topic name then?

Someday when scripting is available it would be really easy to write a script to do what you want.

[000]

On 11/24/2022 at 2:49 PM, MikeTO said:

Why would you want to do this?

Because it‘s quicker than taking my customers list and typing it in one by one?

[000]

On 11/24/2022 at 2:49 PM, MikeTO said:

You'd still need to insert at least one index marker for each topic

Automation for this would be nice too, by the way — it‘s possible to search a single Topic in the whole document but not to automatically create an index (or a base) by searching and placing index markers for the whole topic list.

[MikeTO]

I understand now. Yes, this would be a good feature for that use case. InDesign has this feature.

If Publisher doesn't have this feature by the time scripting is added to Affinity, and assuming there's a script method to create index topics, I'll write a script to do this and share it online.

[000]

On 11/25/2022 at 4:26 PM, MikeTO said:

InDesign has this feature.

I always used a plugin called "IndexMatic" in InDesign because the on-board-function was a bit limited.