To create a new term base, follow these steps:
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Term bases can be created from three places:
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Click the plus
icon beside in the left-hand navigation panel.
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Click New TB from the page.
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Click Create new from the table on a project page.
The page opens.
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Provide a .
Term bases can be used for multiple projects, so the name does not need to be specific for a project.
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Select .
There can be an unlimited number of languages in a term base, but a maximum of 10-15 languages is recommended. Less than 30 languages is still manageable, but more than 50 languages cause the TB to become slow and hard to work with.
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Provide business information and a note if applicable.
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Click Create.
If created from a project page, the new TB is added to the list on that page.
If created elsewhere, the new TB page opens.
Click through tutorial on creating a term base.
Granting access to the term base
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Linguist users
Attach the TB to a project assigned to the linguist user.
If Edit all terms in TB option is enabled in the page, the Linguist can edit and delete all terms in the assigned TB. If the option is disabled, Linguists can only edit or delete the terms they have added.
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Project Manager users
Enable the View TBs created by other users and Modify TBs created by other users options in the page.
Use Cases
A term base can be used to maintain a list of globally forbidden terms. This could be used to ensure some types of language never enter into final texts such as overly colloquial terms (English ain't) or vulgar terms.
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Create a term base for the forbidden terms.
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Add a forbidden term to the term base in the source language of the term.
As an example, add ain't as a new term for only English.
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Click the term to open the page, set the term to and click Save.
The forbidden term is presented in red on the page.
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Add the term base to a project.
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From the project settings, select in the table and click Save.
QA checks on the project will indicate the use of the forbidden term(s) in either source or target.