Importing Terms from a Model

You can import the names of objects from any kind of PowerDesigner model as terms to quickly populate your glossary.

  1. Right-click the Glossary node, and select Import from Model to open the Import Object Names as Glossary Terms Wizard.
  2. Select a model open in the workspace from which to import object names, and then click Next.
  3. Select the kind of object whose names you want to import as glossary terms and, optionally, a property of the object to specify the category of the imported terms, and then click Next.
  4. Select the objects whose names you want to import as glossary terms, and then click Finish.

    The selected objects' names are imported as glossary terms. To import other objects' names as glossary terms, restart the wizard.

    Note: Though a repository can only contain one glossary, in multi-repository environments or in other situations where you want to import terms from another glossary file, right-click the Glossary node, and select Import from Another Glossary Model. Navigate to the glossary file and click Open to open the Merge Models dialog (see Merging Models), which will allow you to review and modify the proposed changes before clicking OK to complete the import.
Parent topic: Creating Terms, Synonyms, and Related Terms