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Glossaries are a type of Collection in K designed to help users understand the context and meaning of data items within your ecosystem.
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Glossaries are made up of terms.
A term can be linked to any data item.
Each term and glossary has it’s own detailed page where you can read its description, see who created it, and understand what it’s connected with.
Within a glossary you can establish a hierarchy of terms to help you group related terms.
Glossary structure
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Example: B2C Glossary
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Option 2) If you know the name of the glossary or term that you are searching for, you can use the Search page and click on the Glossary tab to filter results to glossaries only.
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Improving search term results
There are two ways to search for a Glossary.scroll down to the Term section to locate results related to glossaries.
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Adding an Alias to improve search term results
Sometimes a glossary term can be known by multiple names. To make it easier for your users to locate the glossary term, try adding all the known alias in the term details.
When you add an Alias, it will also help the term appear in a search result if the Alias is typed.
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Glossary Permissions
You can restrict who has the ability to edit or link glossary terms.
When you first create a collection (or glossary), you have the ability to set which roles are able to edit the glossary. After a glossary has been created, you can change the settings at any time via the edit button on the glossary page.
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At the platform level, you can also specify which roles are able to link glossary terms to a data asset. This is set at the platform level and will apply to all glossaries.
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