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Bjorn,
If I understand your description, you want to use side heads - hopefully for their appearance - as you will need a variable to have them repeat across pages.

And you want the translation titles for the chapter to appear above the chapter name in the text, but below the chapter name in the Table of Contents.

This would be a lot simpler to create if you were willing to put the translation beneath the side heads in the document. Then you really just have a simple TOC and no tricks.

Here's a way to get the order your asking for - but it has some ugly side effects (empty space above the text area where text aligns with first side head- which there might be some creative work around for that I haven't thought of yet.)

This solution assumes..
- you want the side head look - not because you think it will give you a repeat
- each chapter has only 1 Chapter Title paragraph. (Although more than one will work if your chapter title has start at Top of Column as a property.)
- This Chapter Title is picked up and repeated on each following page as a variable - in the same location as it appears on the first page.

1. Create a unique first master page for your documents that uses Side Heads. You might want to tag it with your chapter title tag so your template always starts with the right tag. This chapter title tag should be set up as a Side Head paragraph.

2. The Right master page should have a text column only as wide as the text column - excluding the side head area - and should not be set up for side heads.

3. On the Right master page create an unnamed text flow and place it in the side head area where you want your chapter title to display. Insert a Running Header Footer variable that will pick up your chapter title. (This gives you just the chapter title repeating. If you want all of the translations, we haven't gotten that far yet. Right now, I'm just getting you to where you get title to repeat and look like a side head.)

3. If this is a double sided document, set up the Left master similar to the right master.

4. Apply the new first master page to the document, tag it as chapter title and enter your first chapter title.

5. Place your cursor at the end the title you just entered, right before the paragraph return symbol. Insert an anchored frame with the "At Top of Column" property. This will force it above your title. Place a text column in this frame. Create a tag for your translations. Enter your translation text in this box. Make the frame and text column as tall or short as you need to fit.

Now's where you determine if you want this translation text to also repeat on every page... if you don't then one paragraph tag will do. And you're ready for the next step.

However, if you want them all to be picked up and repeated on every subsequent page, create a unique paragraph tag for each - i.e. transSpanish, transFrench. And, go back to the left and right master pages and create an additional running header footer variable - or more than one now that we have some to spare, and enter them where they should go in the existing unnamed flow, or add a new one.

6. When you generate your TOC, choose the Chapter Title and the one or more translation tags to output. Because the anchored frame is after the chapter title, the translation text will appear after the title in the TOC.

If you don't need to switch the order, this would be just a standard TOC.

Hope this helps,
Kathy