[reportlab-users] TableOfContents addEntry doesn't work?

[Robin Becker]

Hi Mike,

you hit on a dirty secret of rendering processes. The toc is intended to be created alongside the rendering process which makes it 
much harder to do as you intend which is to construct a static story with a TOC. TableOfContents relies on there being a change in 
the table of contents during the build and only the last version gets to be shown.
-- 
Robin Becker

On 16/02/2018 02:19, Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to follow along with ReportLab's user guide's instruction on
> creating a table of contents using the addEntry method and I can't seem to
> get it to work. It just keeps adding a TOC placeholder in instead of adding
> the actual table of contents.
> 
> Here is my code:
> https://gist.github.com/driscollis/69d4ef8a3f3714484e0788d747b3d5d5
> 
> Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
> 
> I have tried the afterFlowable() override that it mentions as well and that
> works, but I wanted to know why doing it the other way does not.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
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