Business Terms Relationships
Content managers can link business terms based on default relationships or custom relationships.
Business Glossary provides default relationships which content managers can use to link business terms. The default relationships are bi-directional. An administrator can define custom relationships and modify the colors used to connect default and custom relationships in the relationship view diagram. Custom relationships appear in the Related Assets section of the business term page.
The name of the relationship helps glossary consumers understand how one business term is related to another. Use relationships to provide a broader definition of business concepts and to extend the context of information in complex business terms.
Link business terms when you define the business term. You can link a related term from the same glossary or different glossary. When you link terms from a different glossary, the Analyst tool displays the name of the glossary within a pair of parentheses in the hyperlink text.
Default Relationships
The Analyst tool provides default relationship names for glossaries which are not specific to any industry. Terms that are related using default relationships appear in the General section of the business term page. The related term name appears as a hyperlink.
You can use the following default relationships to define related terms:
- See Also
A see also relationship is a relationship that helps you to identify business terms that have semantic similarity to the current business term. You can use a see also relationship to link to other terms that provide more information about a concept or a business process than what is described in the current business term.
For example, if the current business term is "payslip," you can create links to "salary," "deductions," and "bonus." The three business terms are related because they are components of a payslip.
- Not Same As
- The not same as is a relationship that helps you identity the following types of terms:
- - Terms that have a similar name but have different meanings. Link to business terms that have the same name as the current business term but are semantically different. For example, in the manufacturing glossary, "shuttle" can be used to denote weaving or to denote a transportation vehicle.
- - Terms that business users might use to denote the current term, but are not an accurate representation of the current term. For example, the term "portfolio" is not the same as "stocks."
- Parent - Child
- A parent-child relationship is a relationship that helps you to link business terms to other terms that define high level concepts. The business term that you are defining might use the high level concept that is available in a parent term. The child business term can derive information based on the concepts in the parent business term. Link the parent business term when you define the child business term. You can view the child term in the children property when you open the parent term.
- For example, "simple mortgage" and "reverse mortgage" are child terms to the parent term "mortgage."
- Contains
- The contains property helps you to identify other business terms used to implement the concept or practice in the current business term.
- For example, a bank check contains a Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) number. If the current business term is "check," use the contains relationship to link to the business term "Magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) number."
- Calculated From
- The calculated from property helps you to identify business terms from which you can calculated the value of the current business term.
- For example, the value of the term "gross profit" is calculated from the value of the business term "revenue."