Thesaurus administration
Thesaurus definition
A Thesaurus is an agreed set of standard words and terms.
Standard Thesauri are available, for example one that follows the International Standards Organization (ISO) definition, or you could create your own set of standard terms.
The Content Manager Thesaurus has been designed to follow the recommendations of ISO 2788 - Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri.
Use in Content Manager
Users can use the Thesaurus terms to create record titles or attach them to a record.
Setting up the Thesaurus
For users to be able to use a Thesaurus in Content Manager, the Content Manager administrator must enable its use first:
- If you do not want to use the existing Content Manager Thesaurus terms, create or import a set of Thesaurus terms with Content Manager.
See Building a Thesaurus.
- For users to be able to use the Thesaurus to create record titles, create Record Types that use Thesaurus titling.
See Creating Record Types and specifically Record Type General page.
- To use the Thesaurus to create records, users should follow the instructions in Creating records using Thesaurus titling.
To attach Thesaurus terms to records, user should follow the instructions in Attaching Thesaurus Terms.