Managing the glossaries

Translating glossaries

You can create and manage glossaries in multiple languages, ensuring a consistent and localized user experience when your articles are translated.

1. Navigate to the Documentation () > Content tools > Content reuse > Glossary in the knowledge base portal.

2. Click Create.

3. In the Language dropdown, select the intended language (except global).

4. Enter the Glossary name, term and content in English (or your default language).

5. Click the Translate to other languages dropdown to translate the term and content into other languages.

6. Select the desired language(s) from the dropdown menu and click Translate.

NOTE

• The default language will be marked as Main.

• Translated languages will be indicated with a green tick to show the complete translation. If needed, you can navigate to specific languages and complete their translation.

7. Once the translations are complete, click Create glossary to save the glossary along with its translations.

Editing a Glossary term

You can edit glossaries in Document360 by following these steps:

1. Navigate to Documentation () > Content tools > Content reuse > Glossary in the knowledge base portal.

   The Glossary page appears. If you have added any glossaries earlier, you can see them listed here.

2. Hover over the desired glossary and click the Edit () icon.

3. You can update the term and definition of the glossary.

4. Navigate to Translate to other languages and select the desired language in which the glossary needs to be translated.

5. Click Translate.

6. If needed, you can navigate to other languages and translate them.

7. To retranslate the content, click Translate again, which will overwrite the existing translation with the new one.

8. If you need to remove the translated glossary for a specific language, click Remove language.

9. Once you have made changes, click Update.

NOTE

Global glossaries can be translated.

Deleting a Glossary

1. Navigate to Documentation () > Content tools > Content reuse > Glossary in the knowledge base portal.

   The Glossary page appears. You can find the list of glossaries you have already added.

2. Hover over the desired glossary and click the Delete () icon.

3. Click Yes in the confirmation prompt.

To bulk delete multiple variables

Select multiple intended glossaries from the Glossary page and click the Delete option at the top of the list.

NOTE

When deleting a term with dependencies, please follow the below instructions to avoid glossary content loss in articles:

1. Navigate to the desired glossary term and click on the View option.

   The View references panel will appear, where you can view the list of articles/category pages to which the glossary has been added.

2. Click on the Open in new window () icon and open the article in the portal.

3. Manually remove the glossary term.

4. Navigate back to the glossary page and click Delete.