James W. Fishwick wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to put duplicate TOCs in a article? Or grab one page's TOC from another? Or use a template or extension to create a de facto TOC?

I have a request for a wikibook I'm putting together to have a fixed-position sidebar that has a expandable, up-to- date TOC always there. Ideally, I could use a template using [ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CustomNavBlocks CustomNavBlocks] that would either allow me to move the per article TOC into that position or duplicate it there.

I am also interested in being able to sew together a global dynamic TOC from all the article TOCs in the Main Page of the "book."

Thanks for any help you can provide.

You can change the place when the TOC shows by placing __TOC__ there. But you will have the toc only once. Not sure how would that interact with the sidebar. Maybe you can place __TOC__ into the article with absolute position at the location where the sidebar goes?