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Exclude Content from Publication TOC

On some projects, you may want to include topics in a publication, but stop them from appearing in the table of contents (TOC). For example, if you have a high number of topics, that could result in a large TOC that becomes a little overwhelming for people who are using your help center. So you might want to prevent some topics from being in the TOC, but still have them in the help center so that people can search for them.

To exclude a topic from the TOC, but still searchable in the help:

  1. Select the topic or component in the Content Manager to open it in the Editor.

    Content Manager in Paligo. It shows the Documents section contains an Acme 100 Topics folder. Inside the folder there is a publication and many topics, including "Connect to Network (100).

    Alternatively, you can Create a Topic and edit that.

  2. Select the section element in the Element Structure Menu.

    Close up of Element Structure Menu. It shows the section element is selected and the Go to element option is selected.

  3. Select Go to element.

  4. Add the role attribute n the Element Attributes Panel.

    Element attributes panel. An attribute is being added from the Add attribute field. The role attribute is highlighted in the list of attributes to add.

  5. Set the value of the role attribute to notintoc

    Element attributes panel. The section element is selected and it has been given a role attribute. The value of the role attribute is notintoc

  6. Select Save. Save icon.

  7. Use the arrow buttons to arrange your topics and reused publications, see Organize a Publication.

When you publish the content, topics with role = notintoc are included in the publication, but will not appear in the table of contents.