Why does a column break on the TOC page impacts the TOC itself?

[joe_l]

I have a TOC spanning two columns on the TOC page. For nicer view I wanted that a certain point the TOC continues in column 2. Whenever I add a column break I'll get the warning "One or more tables of content entries need updating. Fix".

When I do the "Fix", the column break is reverted. Am I wrong that changes on the content should have an impact on the TOC and not a column break on the TOC page itself?

Aside from that, I still have to figure out, why the Preflight says there are TOC problems on page 4, when the TOC is definitely on page 3.

[Hangman]

Hi @joe_l,

I'm unsure why a column break, breaks the ToC, @MikeTO may know, but to workaround it you can create two individual linked text frames and adjust their height(s) accordingly to force the text to flow from the first to the second column as required and then place your Table of Contents title text in it's own text frame...

Publisher appears happy with that approach...

16 minutes ago, joe_l said:

Aside from that, I still have to figure out, why the Preflight says there are TOC problems on page 4, when the TOC is definitely on page 3.

I think I've heard this issue before though I can't immediately locate the forum post. We may need to see your document to figure out what is going on... 

[MikeTO]

Huh, that is interesting and IMO it shouldn't do that but it's easy enough to ignore since you'd be inserting the break immediately after updating the TOC. Any change to the generated TOC text, even bolding a word, triggers a Preflight warning that the TOC needs to be updated. I checked and it's not new, it does this in 1.10 and 2.5, too.

 

Edited May 4 by MikeTO
corrected typo

[joe_l]

17 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Huh, that is interesting and IMO it shouldn't do that but it's easy enough to ignore since you'd be inserting the break immediately after updating the TOC. Any change to the generated TOC text, even bolding a word, triggers a Preflight warning that the TOC needs to be updated. I checked and it's not, it does this in 1.10 and 2.5, too.

 

The current behaviour is simply wrong IMO. Of course changes of the content impact the TOC, but changes to the linefall (I do not know the correct word) of the TOC are NOT impacting the content, just showing a non-existent error in the Preflight Panel. Yes, I could ignore it, but this is somehow irritating.

[Dicekai]

Kind of an annoying workaround, but makes it easier in the long run:
I created 2 TOCs and 2 sets of headers. Put TOC1 in, that grabs Set1 headers, insert col break, then put TOC2 that grabs set 2 headers. Now when I update, it keeps the break.