Associating Glossaries With Targets

One of the final steps to creating a glossary is to associate it with a target. After you build the target, the glossary will be incorporated into the output.

How to Associate a Glossary With a Target

  1. Open the target from the Project Organizer.
  2. In the Target Editor, click the Glossary tab.
  3. (Optional) In the Glossary Term Conversion section, select one of the options if you want to make use of glossary term links.
    • Do not convert terms In the output, none of the glossary terms that appear in topics will be converted to hyperlinks, popups, expanding text, or footnotes in the output (even if a term was inserted into a topic as a glossary term link).
    • Convert only marked terms In the output, only glossary terms that were inserted into topics as glossary term links will be converted to hyperlinks, popups, expanding text, or footnotes in the output. Glossary terms that happen to exist in topics as normal text will not be converted.
    • Convert first occurrence of term In the output, only the first occurrence of a glossary term in a topic will be converted to a hyperlink, popup, expanding text, or footnote in the output (per your instructions). This includes terms that were inserted as glossary term links, as well as glossary terms that happen to exist in topics as normal text.
    • Convert all occurrences of term In the output, every occurrence of a glossary term in a topic will be converted to a hyperlink, popup, expanding text, or footnote in the output (per your instructions). This includes terms that were inserted as glossary term links, as well as glossary terms that happen to exist in topics as normal text.

    Note The conversion of a glossary term to a link is case-sensitive. For example, if a term starts with an uppercase letter in the glossary, it will not be converted to a link in the output if the term is all lowercase in the topic.

    Note These options are not supported in Clean XHTML targets.

  4. Click the check box next to each glossary that you want to associate with the target. A check mark is added to the box.

  5. (Optional for online output) In the Glossary Template Page section, select a template page to be associated with your glossary definitions.

    The template page will be used to display the glossary in the output. See Template Pages.

    Example You might use a glossary template page to add custom text at the bottom of the glossary. Or perhaps you want to add a watermark image to the background of the glossary. To do that, you could create a class of the html style, add a background image to that style class, and select that class in the template page file.

    Note A glossary template page is not supported in HTML5 output.

  6. Click Save the active file. to save your work.