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Term Associations and Semantic Lineage

Just like semantic links, term relationships within a glossary can have an impact on both semantic usage and semantic definition reporting.

The Semantic impact is as follows:

Relationship Type \ Semantic Lineage Direction

Usage

Definition Lookup

Has Synonym

No

Yes

More General

No

Yes

More Specific

Yes

No

Represented By

No

Yes

Information note

These relationships may be defined between terms in the same glossary (custom model) or across different glossaries (custom models). In fact, one may replace a separate semantic mapping between two glossaries with More General and More Specific term associations and they will behave the same way as the semantic links in a semantic mapping. I.e., the usage lineage trace with find all the More Specific terms and a definition lineage trace will find all the More General terms.

Information note

These relationships are also part of the workflow if they are a part of a glossary (custom model) under workflow, even if another end of the relationship is to a glossary not under workflow.

Example

Sign in as Administrator and search For the Receivable Account term. Go to its object page and go to the Semantic Flow tab. Be sure to specify Usage for the Type.

Information note

There are no terms which are more specific.

However, that is not because we have not associated this term in the Enterprise glossary with those (more specific) terms in the Finance glossary.

Go back to the Overview tab and note that the Enterprise glossary is under workflow. Thus, click EDIT and leave a comment, and click OK.

Information note

You are now able to add Associations.

Click Asspcoatopms > More Specific. Go to Search and enter “GL” and select GL Account as the more specific term.

Now, go to the Semantic Flow tab. Be sure to specify Usage for the Type and show the Diagram.

Thus, we see that the semantic usage traces through the More Specific associations and the semantic definition traces through the More General associations (relationship).

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