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Glossary enhancements:acronyms and term references
« on: January 12, 2012, 03:24:15 am »
Would like to see 2 enhancements to Project Glossary:
1) acronym support.
- ability to denote one or more associated acronyms for a term.
- same acronym value could be associated with multiple terms.
- acronyms would be included in the glossary listing where term would be the acronym and definition would be the fill description of the acronym
- entry is identified as an acronym allowing one to create an RTF glossary document with options to include/not include acronyms in glossary or to create just an acronym glossary.
- full name description of the acronym could be futher defined, if needed, by referencing another glossary record. (see #2 below)
2) term cross reference.
- like an element's note field, the displayed glossary description field would have links to glossary terms.
- would not create links to itself.
This would allow one who is reading a definition to lookup terms used in the description. Also would help support #1 above where the full name of an acronym entry could reference another glossary entry that further defines the full name.  

Currently I have partially implemented #1 by creating an entry where:
- set Type field = "ACR"
- set Term = value of the acronym
- set Definition = full name associated with acronym.
The above solution has the limitations stated in an earlier posting in that I cannot create multiple entries for the same acronym due to the primary key enforcement of the Glossasy table. The earlier poster recommended using the type field as part of the PK, but in this case that solution would not help unless another field is created that identifies the entry as an acronym. I get around this by entering multiple full name values in the description for the acronym. Likewise in the description field of the full name's glossary entry, I include any associated acronyms.