Entry Structure

MultiTerm entries have a specific hierarchical structure with three different levels. This structure is made up of a number of field types:

Concept level - contains default system fields, an entry class field , descriptive fields and history fields that may be applied to descriptive fields.

Index level - contains index fields (with terms as content), descriptive fields that apply to all terms in that language, history fields that may be applied to either index or descriptive fields. Index fields contain the terms in the various languages, for example English and Deutsch. These are used to sort the termbase content.

Term Fields - Contain additional free-format information that applies to that term only.

Nesting Fields

The termbase definition now allows for unlimited nesting of descriptive (terminology) fields. A descriptive field is defined as any field that is not a history/ system field or index field . The possible data types for descriptive fields are text, picklist, number, boolean, date, number and multimedia.

- an entry level field that specifies how the entry should be classified. There are three system-defined entry classes in MultiTerm and others can be defined in MultiTerm Administrator. The entry class field can be used to restrict access to an entry or for filtering purposes. The entry class field is a protected field and only certain users can access it.

- descriptive fields provide additional information about a termbase entry, index or term. You can specify different data types for descriptive fields. Data types include text, picklist, number, date and time, multimedia and Boolean.

- fields that are used to store terms in a termbase entry. In a multilingual termbase, a separate index is created for each language. Because MultiTerm is a concept-oriented system, each index may contain several index fields or terms. MultiTerm uses the index fields of the selected source language to sort the termbase contents.

- a field that is created and maintained by MultiTerm. The system fields used in MultiTerm are: Entry number, Created on, Created by, Modified on and Modified by. System fields are stored at entry level and may be hidden by default.

- specifies the number and type of index and descriptive fields that a termbase entry may contain, and the entry structure that entries must conform to. Every termbase must have a termbase definition. For exchange purposes, you can save the termbase definition to the file system as an XDT file. Use the Termbase Wizard to create or modify the termbase definition.