I'm using 2.3.7 on Linux with the IndexPlug (can't get RecPlug with
the -use_metadata_files to work, yet).

My index.txt file is:

key: Sec Author Title Summary
test.txt 1.1 "Author1" "Doc1" "This is summary 1"
test2.txt 1.1.1 "nobody aasdf" "Doc2" "This is summary 2"

etc/hfile.txt (the hierarchy classifier file) is:

1 1 "ch1"
1.1 1.1 "mid"
1.1.1 1.1.1 "bot"
2 2 "ch2"

etc/collect.cfg is:

creator no@where
maintainer no@where
public true

indexes document:text document:Title document:Source
defaultindex document:text

plugin ZIPPlug
plugin GAPlug
plugin TEXTPlug
plugin HTMLPlug
plugin EMAILPlug
plugin PDFPlug
plugin RTFPlug
plugin WordPlug
plugin ArcPlug
plugin IndexPlug

classify Hierarchy -hfile hfile.txt -metadata Sec

collectionmeta collectionname "metatest"
collectionmeta iconcollection ""
collectionmeta collectionextra "\nrigid body dynamics_collectorextra_"
collectionmeta .document:text "text"
collectionmeta .document:Source "filenames"

This behaves exactly as I said: I get

ch1
mid
Doc1
*** WHERE IS SECTION "BOT" ???? ***

Ideas?

-Norman