Using a business glossary in Huwise

In the data marketplace experience, you can configure a business glossary.

A business glossary allows you to standardize the terms and definitions your organization uses, and makes them instantly available to your end users, in context, as they navigate your data marketplace.

Our goal is to create a single environment in which your users can independently find and use the data they need. This feature makes your data that much more accessible, that much easier to use.

Once you've defined terms in your glossary, whenever your users encounter terms with definitions in your glossary, those terms are underlined and the definition is provided when the user hovers over them. This applies both in your assets' descriptions and in the definitions of other terms.

If a user clicks on the term itself, it opens the glossary on that term, where they can search for and consult other terms. If they want, they can bookmark or share a link to their search results.

Note that a glossary may be available in the portal's header, if the portal's admin has chosen this configuration.

If you’re an admin or "Manage glossary" is toggled on in your permissions, you have access in the back office to Catalog > Glossary.

On the Glossary page you’ll see your list of terms. Naturally, when you start out, this list is empty. Click Create a term to get started.

Fill in the term’s Name (required) and Description. Under “Aliases,” you can provide the other versions, spellings, or abbreviations of the term for which you also want the definition provided.

Note that a term's name is limited to 255 characters and its definition to 2,000 characters. You can add up to 10 aliases per term, with a maximum of 255 characters each.

Each name and alias must be unique across your glossary. This check ignores case but not accents: “Revenue” and “revenue” count as the same name, while “Resume” and “Résumé” don’t.

To add a link to the glossary to your portal's header, in your back office go to Portal > Navigation > Header menu.

Click on Add menu item, check the "Glossary," and provide the desired text for the link.

Bulk uploading glossary terms is not currently available through the platform interface. However, glossary terms can be created and managed through the Huwise Automation API, depending on your plan. See the API documentation for the necessary endpoints. The size limits described in Configuring your glossary also apply to terms created through the API.

To edit a term, click its name in the list. To delete one or more terms, select them in the list and click the delete icon.

Once a term has been deleted, it is not possible to get it back.