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Use

You can create and change terms in the Maintain Entry screen.

Functions

You can maintain the following attributes for each term in the terminology database.

Mandatory Attributes

You must maintain the following attributes for each term. You cannot save the entry without this mandatory information.

Here you need to assign the term to the component hierarchy. You can use F4 help to choose the application component.

Note

If the term is valid SAP-wide, choose the component SAP R/3.

The entry class affects the translation of and the external access to the terminology entries in SAPterm.

For more information, see Entry classes.

Here you need to enter information about the grammatical attributes of the term.

The grammatical attributes are necessary for comparing the terminology with machine translation dictionaries

For more information, see Grammar Information.

The Source field and the Link to source function are used for documenting the contextual information used in defining the term concept.

Note

Source information is the only additional information that is mandatory. When you create a term, you cannot save it if you have not provided a copy of, or a bibliographic reference to, a source text, or a link to the source text itself.

For guidelines on what information to provide in the Source field, see Source Information.

For more information on creating a link to existing documentation on a term entry, see Creating Links to Source of Term.

Optional Attributes

You can maintain the following attributes as well as the obligatory attributes:

The Comment field contains any other usage, background, or contextual information not covered by the other attributes or the definition. For instance, you can enter the long version of an abbreviation used as a main entry, or a note on the trademarked status of a term.

Note

You are recommended, where possible, to enter any comments in both English and German, where possible. This ensures that as many users as possible can benefit from this additional information.

A glossary entry holds the definition of the concept to which the term refers.

For more information, see Creating and Changing Glossary Definitions.

Create/maintain another entry in the same language for a concept

You can maintain this context analogously to the SAP Knowledge Warehouse.

For more information, see Maintaining Other KW Contexts.

Additional information enhances the value of the term for all users.

You can maintain valid abbreviations and invalid synonyms for the term, for example.

For more information, see Additional Information.

Additional Functions in the Maintain Entry Screen

If you want to edit the main entry, choose Edit ® Change entry. This ensures that the field for the source term is ready for input.

The status of the term you are currently maintaining is displayed as a traffic light next to the Language field.

Users with superuser authorization can maintain the status of a term in the Maintain Entry screen by double-clicking the traffic light icon.

This function enables you to display all information about a term.

For more information, see Terminology Concept.

 

 

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