Glossary name should be editable
under review
Uppili Srinivasan
It would be great if we could provide an option to edit the glossary name after it's creation. Currently, we are not providing the ability for the users to edit the glossary name.
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40b192e1-03fa-4022-a993-110bcd8f5529, Marianne Lynch, Currently, users can update glossary terms, which appear in content and display a definition when hovered over. However, the glossary name itself cannot be edited, as it serves as a unique placeholder stored in the backend and is selected by writers when adding a glossary entry. Since it functions as a placeholder, we do not allow edits to maintain consistency. Could you share your use case for needing to update the glossary name?
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Kristina Ejstes-Svensson
D360 Product Management
As a writer for several industries during more than 30 years, I can assist with a variety of use cases. Here are some:
A term can have several meanings, specifically abbreviations and typically in engineering. What has been added to the glossary may need a tweak.
You want to alter to/from uppercase and/or superscript, or to add a character such as a dash to differentiate between similar terms, according to industry standards.
A term has been written in several ways in evolving documentation, and you need to make a search and replace for consistency. Example: RTP-TX, RTP-Tx, RTP Tx, RTP tx, and rtp tx, are all used for Real Time Transport Protocol Transmitters.
Sales/marketing/branding issues can result in an unexpectedly large amount of changed terms.
The inserted glossary term in a Doc360 web is strict is its display, meaning that an added term always look the same. You may not want to add a term written in lower case as a start of the sentence ....
One solution could be to add terms as you can do with links, with one changeable displayed text to each hidden url; what you see there is not always the actual slug.
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40b192e1-03fa-4022-a993-110bcd8f5529
D360 Product Management This is what we experienced: we entered a term in our glossary, and as we're entering in more content in our knowledge base, the existing term now can have a different meaning in the context of the new content. We need the ability to go back to the existing term and modify the name so that we can reference which definition is for which context.
Marianne Lynch
This would be a great addition - especially if editing the Glossary term name also updated the glossary term everywhere it's been inserted (like a snippet or variable would).
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D360 Product Management
under review
Uppili Srinivasan
Raised on behalf of 40b192e1-03fa-4022-a993-110bcd8f5529