Creating a Business Glossary in HOPEX IT Portfolio Management
HOPEX IT Portfolio Management allows you to make an inventory of the concepts that define business terms and generate a business glossary from which you can view their definitions, synonyms and illustrations.
Consulting the list of Concepts and their Definitions
HOPEX IT Portfolio Management offers a tool for easy consultation and creation of concepts from which you can generate a business glossary.
To display concepts and their definitions:
1. Click the Data > Business Glossary navigation menu.
2. In the edit area, click Concepts.
For more information on concepts, see: Defining Business Information.
Creating Concepts
To create a concept:
1. In the list of concepts, click + New.
2. In the dialog box that appears, specify:
• the term name
• the owner
• the definition of the term
A term is the designation of a concept in a given language. Example: the "Country" concept has the "Pays" in French and "Country" in English.3. Click OK.
The new concept appears in the edit area.
By default, a term is automatically associated with it.
Generating a Business Glossary
HOPEX provides a ready-to-use glossary report to automatically build the business glossary with terms derived from a set of Business dictionaries. For each term, the glossary displays a list of associated definitions with their text, synonyms and components list.
To launch a glossary report:
1. Click the Reports navigation menu.
2. To the right of the edit area, click the Create a report button.
3. Search for the "Glossary Report" and create the report.
4. Select the source business dictionary(ies).
You can select more than one.5. Click Preview.
6. Click Continue to give it a name, a description and rights.
7. Click Save and open.