Importing a Vocabulary File

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:

1. Start the Service Builder in transaction SEGW.
2. In edit mode, right click the Data Model folder in the tree view and choose  Import  Vocabulary .
   Note Vocabulary menu is available only for the projects of type Service with Vocabulary-Based Annotations and Annotation Model for Referenced Service.
3. Select the required vocabulary(s) and click (Continue).In the tree view a new folder with the name Vocabularies is created under Data Model and the vocabularies are imported into this folder.
4. Expand  Vocabularies  Import  Import Vocabulary ID  and double click on Terms to see the details of the imported annotations in the mass maintenance view.
   Note If the selected vocabulary has a reference, then these references are displayed in the folder Implicit References in Vocabulary folder.

If the imported vocabulary file contains terms of type Enum and Type definition, these are also imported and a folder is created for Enum type and Type Definition inside Imported vocabulary ID folder.

• Enum Type: these are nominal scalar types that represent a series of related values. Enumeration (or Enum) types expose these related values as members of the enumeration.
• Type Definition: a type definition defines a specialization of one of the primitive types. Type definitions can be used wherever a primitive type is used (other than as the underlying type in a new type definition), and are type-comparable with their underlying types and any type definitions defined using the same underlying type.