This topic has been covered many time in the past, 5 years ago. Has there been any improvements to allow the index entry to be clickable so it jumps to that page in the document? I can’t believe this is not yet working. It greatly impacts on the usefulness of the index.
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If you’re talking about Alphabetical Index, the back link doesn’t make sense.
Identical index keys are merged into a single paragraph containing the key and a list of pages where you’d find the key.
Then having a hyperlink similar to the one in TOC can’t work: which entry occurrence would be the target of the link?
Remember that in usual TOC, the whole TOC entry is embedded in a LS … LE marking. You can then Ctrl-click anywhere on the entry to jump back to the heading.
In an index, such a marking is ambiguous because it encompasses several page destinations. An adaptation is needed. If the marker is restricted to the page number, then the destination is disambiguated. But, this can’t be specified presently.
However, there still remains unmanaged situations:
- several keys in the same page: perhaps the link destination could be the first occurrence in the page
- merged page sequence like 3-5: same as previous case?
- consecutive page sequence like 3ff.: same as above?
Besides these fundamental questions, the LS and LE item should be allowed in the entry structure, perhaps restricting them to be around # only.
It still isn’t. tdf#65463 is still not fixed.
Oh I was wrong! It is fixed in 7.2 - see the release notes. It was only missing the attribution to that bug 
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8 years since it was first reported and it’s still not fixed yet. No one has even been assigned to fix it. It looks like I will have to hold my breath for a while longer. Maybe by 2030?
Importance: high enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
LibreOffice is developed by benevolent volunteers. If you feel brave and competent enough, you can tackle the problem yourself: source code is freely available. But, beforehand, you should solve the theoretical issue I described above.