Table of Contents (TOC)

A table of contents is intended to provide users with a hierarchical view of your topics. It is located on the left side of the ebook, grouped with the other navigation panes, such as Index and Search.

The icons in the TOC uses the books and pages metaphor to represent categories and topics in your table of contents. Book icons represent categories for organizing your topics. Page icons represent the individual units of information (topics).
Although books and pages are the default icons, but they can be changed easily.

HyperMaker enables you to visually design a table of contents. Just open your publication, click the TOC tab on the left, drag and drop one or several HTML documents from the from the Files tab to the TOC. Or you can create the TOC items by or or several files and clicking the button on the top left side of the TOC pane.

The TOC button bar contains several buttons, whose functions are:

Create New TOC Topic, pointing to an file in the ebook file list in Files Tab.

Create a new TOC folder, useful for organizing TOC files.

Delete the selected Topic(s) or Folder from the TOC (not file will be deleted on disk).

Move the selected topic to the left.*

Move Up the selected topic (see Browse Sequence below).*

Move Down the selected topic (see Browse Sequence below).*

Open the TOC Topic Properties window, where you can rename the Topic, change its icon and target and also link a different file to the selected Topic. Learn More.

Each time you click on this button, it will change its image and depending on the button image, HyperMaker will do different things when you select a TOC topic:

	The selected topic will be previewed.
	The file linked to to topic will be selected in the Files Tab.
	If the selected topic is an HTML document it will be edited with the Built-In HTML Editor.

HyperMaker ebooks show the TOC Tab inside the Navigation Pane on the Left, where also the Index, Search and Favorites tabs are located.

* Selection of multiple topics is possible, but they only can be moved using the movement buttons. When dragging and dropping topics they are also moved, but only one at a time!

Both Navigation Links and a Table of Contents offer easy access to your Ebook pages.
You can use both them or just only one to provide navigation to your readers.

Browse Sequence

Browse sequences allow users to move forward and backward through a series of topics arranged in a specific order. The order is based on the sequence of topics in the TOC, all topics in the TOC can be browsed in the same order that they are arranged there.

How users access browse sequences

Depending on the toolbar buttons and menu commands set for your Ebook , Previous and Next buttons as well the same menu commands are displayed in the Ebook. Also the previous and next macros can load the previous and next pages in the browse sequence.

Browse sequence buttons are specially useful for reading in sequential form an Ebook as well to explore the Ebook content in a prescribed order.