Reply To: TOC and multiple identical entries

thx for the advice, the thing is it’s a quite big catalogue (322 page, over 12.000 product codes, I’m not joking).
The previous designer used to use Xpress, create an index/toc using a character style as a parameter (not a paragraph style, and it was quite useful because she could have codes inside paragraphs lines), save the list of entries (every line had a code and its page number) as a RTF file and then use a script to collapse all the entries in a style she wanted (code n,n,n,n)

I’m trying to find a way inside indesign and I would like to avoid to add every entry as a topic for and index.
Right now I found a way, similar to the one of my ex colleague, that is:
1) from my catalogue file, create a TOC with no page number to have all my entries in a list
2)copy the list into a new indesign document. save it.
3) use this script https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/index_from_wordlist.html to add all the entries of the list to my catalogue topics
4) create an index.

But I’m wondering if there is an easier way :)

The other difficulty is to be able to have the codes “free” inside the paragraph, so it would be great to be able to use a character style and not a paragraph style to create the codes entries, but I cannot create a TOC using a character style as a parameter…