• Define Glossary Terms
  • Define Glossary Terms
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  • As you create content, you might use specialized terms unique to your company or terms that require further clarification for your users. You can use glossaries to provide definitions for these terms.
  • Use of glossaries involves three steps:
  • First, you create a glossary document using the
  • Glossary Editor
  • attachments
  • You next assign one or more glossaries to your content using the Properties
  • toolpane
  • The glossary must be attached to the parent document prior creating the child document for the child to inherit the glossary. If child documents already exist when the glossary is attached to the parent, you must manually attach the glossary to each child document.
  • Note:
  • The final step in using glossaries is glossary markup, or updating glossary links, which can be done from the Glossary Editor, Library, and Outline Editor. When you update glossary links, 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.
  • When you publish your content to Player outputs, glossary terms appearing in bubble text in topic frames or web page text are linked to their definitions as in the Developer. Users can click glossary links to display the attachments containing the definitions of the glossary terms. When you publish content that contains glossary markup to a Training Guide and Instructor Manual, a glossary is included as a list of terms and definitions at the end of the document. If you publish content containing more than one glossary to one of these document outputs, the glossaries are merged and presented as one alphabetical list. If a term appears in more than one of the merged glossaries, it is listed multiple times, once for each glossary in which it appears. However, only those terms with definition link attachments that typically appear in document outputs are included in the glossary. Specifically, the types of definition links included in the glossary sections of document outputs are
  • package files
  • web pages
  • URLs