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, they can only edit terms from the assigned TB.
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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.