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Multi-level list InDesign

I am formating a book chapter and got stuck with tables, figures and sections numberings. I am trying for days. Can someone help me please?

The book is organised like this:

Chapter 1 Title (This is not a numbered list. It is a text frame with its own paragraph style and I change it manually)

Some introductory paragraph. (The style of this first paragraph is different because it has a Drop Cap character and every chapter starts with it, but it is based on the normal "Body" paragraph style).

Figure 1. Caption

Table 1. Caption

Primary Section 1

Figure 2. Caption

Secondary section 1

Figure 3. Caption

Table 2. Caption

Tertiary section 1

Secondary section 2

Figure 4. Caption

Table 3. Caption

Primary section 2

Figure 5. Caption

Table 4. Caption

End of chapter.

Chapter 2... and so on (See figure 1)

Figure 1. This is how the book is divided. The text frames between chapters are unthreaded. Text frames within chapters, are threaded.


I need all lists to restart in every chapter. As we can see in the image, they

I have one paragraph style for each list.

It is also important to mention that figures 1, 2... and Chapter 1, 2... are not in the same frames as the other elements. But they're all in the same layer. I don't know if this affects the lists' behavior.

I played with the list levels, created other lists and I just couldn't do it.

I tried to set my Drop Cap paragraph as a Level 1 numered list with no numbering, so it could restart the other lists, theoretically. It didn't worked.