Information Catalog Manager Administration Guide

Creating a dictionary facility

You can set up an icon where users can quickly find definitions or synonyms of the business terms that you use in your information catalog, such as a dictionary, glossary, thesaurus, or synonym finder.

When you set up this icon for the first time, it is displayed in every user's Information Catalog window as a saved search. Whenever users want to know the name for an item in the information catalog, they can double-click the saved search icon to view the glossary.

The Information Catalog Manager comes with a Glossary object type.

To create a dictionary facility:

1. Create a Dictionary category object type. See Creating your own object types for information on creating object types.
2. Create new objects of this object type.
3. Close the information catalog.

   When you log on to the Information Catalog Manager again, the new dictionary facility is displayed in your Information Catalog window as a saved search. The new dictionary facility is also displayed in every user's Information Catalog window.