An input model provides you with a template for creating and editing termbase entries. You can use input models to enter a default value for particular fields. The user can accept the default value as is or modify as required. This helps to ensure consistency while decreasing the time taken to create or edit an entry.
Procedure
- Go to from the Ribbon.
- Server termbases: Select Servers to set up the available servers, and Login to connect to a specific server. Select
for each termbase you want to open, and select OK.
- Local termbases: Select Browse to open a
*.sdltb file. Select
for each termbase you want to open, and select OK.
- In the Terms view, go to the Home tab and select an input model from the drop-down list in the Input Model box. The input models listed are sorted alphabetically by name and then by owner (user-owned, user role-owned or system-owned).
- Select the Full form input model button, below the drop down list, to toggle between full form and short form input models.
- You can now begin adding new or editing existing termbase entries.
Note: You may find that you cannot display an entry that you set up in your input model, for example, a nested field. This may be because it is not permitted by your default layout and the layout may suppress fields that are marked as mandatory in the input model. Go to to adapt your layout and allow these fields to be displayed.
Conversely, changes made to your termbase definition may not show up in the input model. See this KB article for more information: Changes to the values of a picklist field in your termbase definition are not displayed.