Associating a Term with a Glossary

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Business Terms are identified by:

• Name
• Term Entity Type (toggles on and off)
• Parent Glossary

Business Terms must be unique to a Glossary as they can be homonymous. For example, Business Term "Policy" in Glossary "Internal Operations" < > "Policy" in "Insurance." Thus the Glossary provides context. This features allows different department, organizations, and topics to reuse the same term name and provide a different definition.

Policy [Internal Operations]
Policy [Insurance]

Whenever a Business Term is shown anywhere in ER/Studio, its owning Glossary also is shown in square brackets similar to the following example.

To associate a term with an existing glossary

1. Open the page of the target term. You can search for it.
2. Open the Related Glossaries subpage.
3. Open the Relate tab.
4. In the list of existing glossaries, click Relate on the right-hand side of a glossary to associate it with the current term.

   Notes:

   • You can use the search field at the top of the page to filter the list of existing glossaries.
   • You can click Unrelate on right-hand side of a glossary, on any of the tabs, to disassociate the glossary with the current term.

See Also

• Creating a Glossary
• Adding a Term to a Glossary
• Related Glossaries subpage