Importing a Vocabulary File

Instructions for importing a vocabulary file into the Service Builder.

Context

After a vocabulary file has been uploaded into the central Vocabulary Repository, you can import it into the Service Builder to annotate data model artifacts. Subsequently, to import a vocabulary file into the Service Builder and use this for working with annotations, proceed as follows:

Procedure

Start the Service Builder in transaction SEGW.
In edit mode, right click the Data Model folder in the tree view and choose Import Vocabulary . This menu option is only available for projects created of type Service with Vocabulary-Based Annotations.
In the Vocabulary Repository, select the vocabulary file you want to use and choose Continue. A new folder entitled Vocabularies is created for this data model in tree view and the vocabulary file is imported.
Double-click the Terms node in the Vocabularies folder to see the details of the imported vocabulary files in the mass maintenance view.

Results

After the vocabulary definitions have been added to the data model, you can use these terms to annotate the data model artifacts as they can be applied.

Note Parsing will treat both V3 and higher terms as valid items and update appropriately. For example, both Value Term (V3) and Term (higher terms than V3) are valid and will be updated to Term node. Both Using and Reference -> Include elements are valid to reference a vocabulary definition. When adding vocabularies into the data model, if the referenced vocabulary is available in the Vocabulary Repository, then it will also be imported into the data model in the Implicit References folder.