Adding Other Views and Objects to, and Extending the Glossary

Although the Glossary's primary purpose is to manage enterprise terminology, you can also add business rules and create reports on glossary objects. You can create lists and dependency matrices to display the glossary terms and their relationships with other objects. You can also extend the glossary using all the standard extension mechanisms including adding new properties to glossary terms and creating new types of objects.

These features are available from the glossary contextual menu. Right-click the glossary and select New >:

Glossary Terms List - to create a terms list in the canvas (see Glossary Terms Lists).
Dependency Matrix - to create a dependency matrix (see Dependency Matrices).
Business Rule - to create a business rule (see Business Rules).
Report - to create a report on the glossary (see Reports).
List Report - to create a list report on terms or other glossary objects (see Creating a List Report).
Extension - to add an extension file (see Extension Files) to the glossary to allow you to extend glossary objects or define new extended objects. You can also add extended attributes to a glossary term, synonym, or related term directly from its property sheet using the standard mechanism (see Adding New Properties to an Object)