Create Glossary Words and Abbreviations

You can enter words and their corresponding abbreviations directly into the glossary. You can enter, display, edit, and specify the word type (prime, modifier1, modifier2, or class).

Follow these steps:

  1. Expand the Model Explorer, right-click Naming Standard and click New.

    A new Naming Standard object is added.

  2. Right-click the new object and click Properties.

    The Naming Standard Editor appears.

  3. Complete the following options in the NSM Option Editor:
    Name

    Specifies the default NSM name. You can modify the NSM name when required.

    Match whole words only

    Specifies whether to substitute glossary abbreviation on whole words only or to include parts of words or substrings. Select the check box to substitute glossary abbreviation on whole words only. Clear the check box to substitute glossary abbreviation for complete words, as well as on parts of words or substrings.

    Match whole name only

    Specifies whether to substitute glossary abbreviation on whole name only. Select the checkbox to substitute glossary abbreviation on whole name only and to ignore parts of words and substrings.

    For example, a glossary abbreviation, Customer Name is substituted with its abbreviation only when the whole name is found. The parts of words or substrings, Customer and Name are ignored.

    Is Active

    Specifies whether to apply a NSM to a model.

    Physical to Logical

    Specifies whether the changes made to the Naming Standard in the Physical mode should be preserved and reflected in the Logical mode.

    Notes:

    • For Hive, when reverse engineering (REC or RES) is done, the Physical to Logical option on the Naming Standard Editor is not set by default. You need to set it manually.
    • As a best practice, do not select the Physical to Logical check box while deriving a PO model; that has NSM objects or NSM template attached to it; to LO model. Earlier an option for Physical to Logical NSM was not available. However, as it is in erwin Data Modeler now, you need not use NSM for deriving a new model. For example, PO to LO.
  4. Click the Glossary tab and work with the following options:
    Word Type

    Displays only the selected type of glossary words.

    Word/Words

    Specifies the glossary word or words that you want to abbreviate.

    Abbreviation

    Specifies the standard abbreviation.

    Alt Abb

    Specifies an alternate abbreviation.

    P, M1, M2, C

    Specifies whether you want to use the word as a prime, modifier 1, modifier 2, or class.

  5. Click Save Model icon to save the glossary as a .CSV file. You can use this file at a later point, when you perform reverse engineering and want to preserve the naming standards attached to the model.
  6. Click Close.

    The data is saved.

Note: In case of duplicates, the glossary word/abbreviation that you created the latest will be applicable.

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