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Hello, I'm hoping you might be able to help me troubleshoot a problem I'm having with indexes.

I am authoring in DITA and have used the <indexterm> tag to flag entries that should appear in an index. As an example:

<p>Upload a <indexterm>data set</indexterm> to use when creating a visualization.</p>

I have tried using both PDF transformation scenarios from my manyeyes.ditamap file (using default options for the transforms) and neither will produce an index in my PDF.

I then tried created a DITA book map file and including a specific element in the back matter to bring in the index:

<booktitle>
<mainbooktitle>Many Eyes user guide</mainbooktitle>
<booktitlealt>Using Many Eyes</booktitlealt>
</booktitle>
<chapter format="ditamap" href="manyeyes.ditamap" />
<backmatter>

<booklists><indexlist /></booklists>
</backmatter>
</bookmap>

That didn't work, either.

Do you have any suggestions for how to generate an index in my PDF?

Many thanks!
-jennifer

Hi Jennifer,

Probably the DITA Open Toolkit Users List is a good place to find more details about this problem.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/

Regards,
Radu