• Update Glossary Links
  • Update Glossary Links
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  • The final step in using glossaries is glossary markup, or updating glossary links. You can update glossary links from the Glossary Editor, the Library, or the Outline Editor.
  • When you update glossary links from the Glossary Editor, all documents to which the open glossary is assigned are updated.
  • When you update glossary links from the Library or Outline Editor, the selection and its related documents are included by default. Clicking the View Related Documents link displays a list of the related documents. For this process, related documents are defined as all searchable documents that are directly or indirectly linked as children of the selection. For example, if you select a section that has topics and each of the topics has a web page linked as its concept, choosing to search related documents searches the section, the topics, and the web pages linked to the topics. Templates and package contents are not included in this operation.
  • From the Library, you must have at least one document selected or the tool is disabled. If nothing is selected in the Outline Editor, the entire outline is searched; this is equivalent to selecting the root of the outline.
  • The documents that are included in glossary markup from the Library and Outline Editor do not all have to have the same assigned glossary, but each one must have an assigned glossary to be updated. The appropriate glossary is applied to each document, regardless of the glossary used to update any document to which it is related.
  • During glossary markup, the Developer searches the text in your content for occurrences of glossary terms. When it finds a term that matches the selected markup conditions (Match Whole Word and Match Case), it creates a link to the attachment specified as the definition link. By default, when a glossary term appears multiple times in one location, only the first instance of the term is marked as a glossary link. You can also change the
  • glossary default settings
  • If you later make any changes to a glossary, to glossary assignments, or to text containing glossary terms, you must update the links again.
  • Glossary markup affects text in frame bubbles in topics, including Introduction and End frames, and text in
  • web pages
  • Note that document names, package files, and templates are all excluded from glossary markup.
  • Note also that glossary markup does not create recursive links. Therefore, if a web page that is used as the definition link for a term includes text containing the same term, no glossary link is created, so that the web page is not linked to itself by glossary markup.
  • Once created, a glossary link functions just like any other link to an attachment, such as a hyperlink inserted in a web page. Therefore, you can edit or remove the link, if desired. However, any changes that you make to a glossary link apply only to that link and do not affect the entry for the glossary term in the glossary document. In addition, if you later update glossary links again, the text used in a manually edited glossary link is excluded from glossary markup and is not overwritten with a new glossary link.
  • Multi-user Considerations
  • For changes to be made to a document using this tool, the document must be checked out. If you plan to use this tool offline, you should
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  • check in
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  • To update glossary links from the Glossary Editor:
  • Open the glossary document, if necessary.
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  • To update glossary links from the Library or Outline Editor:
  • Select the document(s) for which you want to update glossary links.
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