Glossary: multiple definitions for the same term

[Uffe]

Hello everybody,


When working with a Project Glossary I come up against a limitation which I find a little bit annoying: I can't create two entries for the same term.
This is by design: the term is highlighted whenever it appears in a Note, and Ctrl-click takes you to its definition. Fine so far - except sometimes you would like to create alternative definitions for the same term, if for instance you are working with several disciplines (eg analysis and design) in the same project.

Each glossary entry has a Type, which could be used to achieve this. However, the type column in the t_glossary table is non-key.
If the type column was instead made key, the unique identifier would be the combination of term and type.
This would require some behaviour changes when there was an ambiguous definition: EA would have to indicate this in the tooltip, and the Ctrl-click would need to show a list of possible definitions.

I think it would be worth it in larger projects, and I don't think it would negatively affect current usage as a single-definition term would continue to evoke the same EA behaviour.

Comments?


Cheers,

/Uffe