Flare may provide you with an initial glossary called "MyGlossary," to which you add terms and definitions using the Glossary Editor. You can use this initial glossary, but you can also add more glossaries if you want.
Example The documentation team where you work is creating many manuals for different products in the company. The documentation manager has decided that each glossary in each manual must contain certain terms and definitions.
Your team could create a glossary with the same terms and definitions, calling it "CorporateGlossary." Flare would create an XML glossary file called "CorporateGlossary.flglo" behind the scenes. Authors on the team could then share copies of that glossary file. Each author adds the glossary to his or her project and associates the glossary with any targets to be compiled.
Each author might then have another glossary specific to his or her manual, containing terms and definitions that are not used in all projects.
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How to Add a Glossary File
- Do one of the following, depending on the part of the user interface you are using:
- Ribbon Select Project > New > Glossary.
- Right-Click In the Project Organizer, right-click on the Glossaries folder and from the context menu select Add Glossary.
The Add File dialog opens.
- In the File Type field at the top, make sure Glossary is selected.
- In the Source area, choose to create the new file based on a template or an existing file.
- New From Template Choose either a factory template file or one of your own custom template files as a starting point. The new file will take on all of the settings contained in the template. If you want to use the factory template provided by Flare, expand the Factory Templates folder and click on a template file. If you want to use your own custom template file, expand the appropriate folder and click on a file.
- New From Existing Choose an existing file of the same type as a starting point for your new file. As with template files, your new file will take on all of the settings contained in the file you select. To use this option, click
, use the Open File dialog to find a file, and double-click it.
- New From Template Choose either a factory template file or one of your own custom template files as a starting point. The new file will take on all of the settings contained in the template. If you want to use the factory template provided by Flare, expand the Factory Templates folder and click on a template file. If you want to use your own custom template file, expand the appropriate folder and click on a file.
- (Optional) If you want to place the file into a subfolder previously created in the Content Explorer or Project Organizer, in the Folder field click and select the subfolder. Otherwise, keep the default location.
- In the File Name field, type a new name for the glossary.
- (Optional) If you want to apply condition tags to the file, expand the Attributes section at the bottom of the dialog. Next to the Condition Tags field, click and select the conditions you want to apply. Click OK.
- (Optional) If you want to apply file tags, expand the Attributes section at the bottom of the dialog. Next to the File Tags field, click and select the file tags you want to apply. Click OK.
- Click Add. The glossary is added to the Glossaries folder in the Project Organizer. The Glossary Editor opens to the right, with an initial glossary term and definition shown.
What’s Next?
After you add the new glossary, you need to create new glossary terms and definitions. See Creating Glossary Terms and Definitions.