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
- Open the page of the target term. You can search for it.
- Open the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Related Glossaries subpage.
- Open the Relate tab.
- 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.
- Notes:
