Defining topic sequence linking for an HTML output

Last Updated : Apr 09, 2024 |

Use this procedure to define a topic sequence in a DITA Map that will display as next and previous topic links at the bottom of the topics in an HTML output.

Procedure

  1. Open the publication and navigate to a reltable in the map where you want to define the sequence.
  2. Add a new relationship table row.
  3. Right-click one of the elements in the row and select Add Within > Topic Group.

    All of the topics you want to include in the sequence might not be the same topic type. In this case, just choose the topic type that most of the topics belong to.

  4. When the Insert Values for Topic Group dialog box, displays:
    1. Select Sequence as the Collection type.
    2. If the map is also being included in the PDF and you don’t want the related links to appear in the output, set the Condition to HTML.
    3. Click OK.




  5. Copy the topics that make up the sequence into the topicgroup

If you didn’t set up a topicgroup separately from the topic hierarchy, as noted in step 2, skip the following step.

  1. For each topic in the topicgroup, set the toc attribute to no.