How To: TOC or LOF stored inside Document

[Dave_R...@adobeforums.com]

Running FM 7.0p579 and WinXP Pro/SP2.
Issue Background:
EDD is well modified from original Spec.
Structured doc contains two Elements, Contents and Illuslist.
Each contains a list of entries - all are Hotlinked, like a Generated List in a Book File.
Each element, when selected in Structure View, highlights a large chuck of content (ie, all the entries in the associated list) in Doc View. For the Contents element, which occurs as first child in Structure, the selected content includes the top titles in the doc.
In doc view, list content can be edited; however, after clicking into a line, one use of cursor arrow (eg, UP), takes insertion point to top of content chunk.
New entries can be entered, but only using Soft Returns and tweaking settings in Para Designer.

My Question(s):
1) How are these lists created? First answer might involve the tocentry attribute that is on some elements; but it is not on all the elements to which these linked list entries go.
2) How to update the lists using some "auto-generate" function? The files are stand-alone and not part of any Book File. As far as my users recall, the files never have been part of a Book.

Can anyone provide insight here?
Regards,
Dave

[Russ Ward]

Dave, are these text insets that you are clicking? Even though you've provided lots of info, I'm not quite sure what you have encountered.

Russ

[Dave_R...@adobeforums.com]

They are definitely not text insets. They are several lines in one Element. The line breaks are not Soft Returns, but are "full paragraph line breaks ("CrLf's"), with the Para symbol.
The parent elements mentioned in first post are set up as Container/Empty in EDD and so do not allow typing text. But they DO allow copy/paste text and/or structure.
Further testing since I started this thread has revealed: If I "rewrap" the two elements, all formatting gets stripped! The result looks very much like an Auto-Generated TOC that has not been set up for text formatting. That is, all the entries are slammed left, no leadered tab, and even the Across Cols gets stripped to where the entries are confined to the two-col page.

All I am seeing has now led me to suspect these lists were indeed created using a Book File - even if the book only contained the one document - then the results in the auto-gen list were copy/pasted into the top of the content file. Then formatted "manually". In fact, the Para Tags in use have conspicuously Auto-Gen TOC-looking names, such as, Title(TOC1)TOC. The context label you see in this example is indeed the one called out in the EDD!
I intend to test this stand-alone auto-gen theory tomorrow.

Thanks for the response.
Dave