Add Glossary

Glossaries in erwin Mart Portal are the containers for all business terms created in the enterprise glossary workspace.

You can create glossaries based on your organization's projects, departments, or functions. Therefore, before creating business terms, you need to create a glossary. You can also create sub-glossaries to group business terms further.

To add glossary, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Application Menu > Enterprise Glossary.
    The Enterprise Glossary page appears.

  2. Select the Glossary View node and click .

    The Add New Glossary page appears.

  3. Enter appropriate values in the fields. Refer to the following table for field descriptions.

    Field

    Description

    Name

    Specifies the name of the glossary

    For example, Amazon Prime.

    Description

    Specifies the description and purpose of the glossary

    For example, Amazon Prime contains information about Users, Account details, and Movies.

  4. Click Submit.

    The glossary is created and added to the list of glossaries.

Use the following options to work on glossaries:

    Add Business Term ()

    Use this option to add a business term in glossary. To know more, refer Add Business Term topic.

    Import Glossary File ()

    Use this option to import glossary file.

    Download Glossary File ()

    Use this option to download glossary file.

    Edit Glossary ()

    Use this option to edit the glossary.

    Delete Glossary ()

    Use this option to delete a glossary.

    Delete All Glossaries ()

    Use this option to delete all glossaries.