How do I get the table of contents to show in iBooks Author

I have created a book in iauthor, a collection of short stories. I have used one chapter as they do not suggest a need for addtional chapters. How to I create table of contents? When I use the inspector/TOC, the window opens

and when select "Table of Contents" from the left window, get a blank page with my title and chapter 1 but no content below that. The thumbnails clearly shows some 66 pages of text and photos. The yellow outline encloses all my pages so I suspect that my problem stems from no having created sections? I have added a screenshot of what is there.

Thanks,

GH

robbehr,

I and other have offered what advice we can, in an effort to assist your learrning curve with Apples excellent iBooks Author software.

Like all software - from any supplier, it does what its designers - working to a set of instrution - engineered it to do. Apple decided on what IT as a company wanted to do with this software and in truth it does a brilliant job.

You say you have made a career change, in your situation, I think I would have been delving into all the available options and finding out what did what and if working with a combination of applications was an option.

There is a full TOC in an iBA book when viewed on the iPad. It allows the reader/viewer to move through chaptors sections and pages at will.

What you mean is, there is no TOC ( page) as is available in a paperback. You need to come to terms with an iPad that allows rapid swipe page "turnovers" select of chapters with a tap. If you want to emmulate the written book, OK..iBA does not have one or two of the printed books traditional pages.

Although I do not use either software, Apples Pages will create ePubs and the serious and smart, use Adobe InDesign.

I think at the start of your new career you need to try all your options and get to know what each of your chosen applications is capable of before taking on a paid for project.

This forum as a wealth of knowledge already in print! All you need to do is give 30 minutes a day over your coffee to search out topics and read them through.

Apple already have an update in progress based on what Apple wants next and what WE have sent in as feedback and it will come out only when its ready.

That said come September/October the new OS will allow our books to be used by computers and assuming its iTunes related means also Windows capable, which just boout triples the market.

In your favour,apart from a few models, iMacs and PC do not (yet) have touch screens so its just possibile that will be a new feature in iBA

In effect, you have solved your problem!

You have the one chapter and no sections....and that is all that will show in TOC.

You could have each story as a section.

Simply add section pages, copy the text of each story and paste, when all the stories are relocated, delete the original text. Same applies if you decided to have each story as a Chapter.

Also, you can see image placeholder, you may wish to drop on image onto the page and reduce its opacity to allow the text to be visible and clear.

Thank, vinnyvg

If I read you right, I can leave things as they? Where and when will the pages/show of each story show? Should they not show on the screen shot I sent?

If I don't need to redo anything that would be good..

GH

If you dont do anything, you have what you have now! No TOC.

Adding sections ( or chapters) and moving 1 story to each section - name the section with the story title... it shows in the TOC.

As an experiment/test... try adding a chapter or section - rename it using a story title and check your TOC after you have saved everything. Its easy to delete after if you dont want it.

Have you tested / previwed your book on iPad or Mac using the new iBooks facility?

It I add a section, it goes to the end of the document and yes it does show as Chapter 1.1. How can I edit my existing 68 pages which are now all included in Chapter 1, so that I have separate sections that will then show up on the TOC as desired?

GH

Yes, a section of chapter when added to the book is at the bottom of the tree.

So how many stories do you have? Lets say 10. so add 9 new section pages under the original you now have.

Copy 1 story and paste into 1 section. Repeat section 2, 3 etc,. Rename each section with the stories title.

After all your stoies are in their own sections... delete the original text which is no longer needed,

Check your TOC and you should have 10 new entries each showing the story title.

Tidy up the text formatting if needed.

Sections can be dragged higher or lower than their current position. BUT... why not decide the order of your stories and paste into the sections as you wish the reader to go through your book and avoid the need to drag sections around.

I have started a new book and it looks good using section which are reflected on the Table of Content but when I tried a trial export to pdf, the Table of Contents does not show although it does when I made a trial epub.

I will be producing both formats for those family members that do not have access to the epub.

GH

Thanks. Now I have used Chapters and sections within chapters and when I look at the table of contents, I see Chapter 1 listed with a dot at the bottom which when I select it, I go to chapter 2. Now how can I get it so that all Chapters show in the Table of Contents?

I really appreciate your guidance.

GH

The TOC does not transfer to PDFs ... in Acrobat users can scroll or use the left panel thumbs to select pages.

Before starting your new book.... http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2751

Good idea! I'll give it a go over the next few days and hopefully your suggestion will solve my problem. I'll get back to you.

If it is succssful with each story being its own section, will I then be able to easily reorder the pages?

GH