How to assign page number of label to hyperlink

Question

I'm quite new with Overleaf and I have following problem: I want to make clickable table of contents to my thesis. It turned out that package hyperref works only with numbered chapters and sections. I still have some unnumbered chapters like abstract, foreword and introduction and I want to add them manually to toc.

So I decided to use the implementation where I try to figure out for example the page number of abstract with \pageref command, when there is created label inside of abstract with \label command.

Here is the example code:

\begin{abstract}
\label{hyp:abstract}

Some text...

\end{abstract}

.sty file

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\contentsline{chapter}{ABSTRACT}{}{page.\pageref{hyp:abstract}} }
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Edit: These chapters abstract, foreword and introduction are not exactly chapters but headers and own similar kind of structures compared to \chapter.

I have tried several ways of implemented this but always get hundreds of errors and I have no clue what is the proper way to do it. Thanks in advance!

In that case, please show an MWE (emphasis on minmal and compilable) that demonstrates your problem. As it stands, we can only guess the details of your problem. — schtandard, Jun 06 '19 at 13:58
This topic can be closed/removed. I found out that .sty file command should be edited following: \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\contentsline{chapter}{ABSTRACT}{}{page.\thepage}}. — T. Holmström, Jun 06 '19 at 14:53

Ulrike Fischer · Answer 1 · 2019-06-06T13:26:46.843

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You can add an arbitrary destination anchor with \phantomsection.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{numbered}
\newpage
\chapter*{unnumbered}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{unnumbered}
\newpage
\phantomsection unnumbered 2
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{unnumbered 2}
\end{document}

edited Jun 06 '19 at 13:26

answered Jun 06 '19 at 13:05

Ulrike Fischer

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Thanks for the answer but this solution does not fit in my case. – T. Holmström Jun 06 '19 at 13:20
As you didn't provide a sensible minimal example nobody can't know "what fits your case" and so I guessed. – Ulrike Fischer Jun 06 '19 at 13:22
I added an edit ... – Ulrike Fischer Jun 06 '19 at 13:27

How to assign page number of label to hyperlink

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