To validate Proposed terms or term entries with the Validate TD button
About this task
Proposed term or term entry with a validation project using the Validate TD button, you must have an appropriate workflow set up. When you click Validate TD, you are prompted to supply the following:
- A project name (actually, this name applies to a project group, because projects are created for each locale).
- A description of the project.
- The validation workflow to use.
- The workgroup.
- Whether to validate terms or term entries.
Approved. In a typical validation workflow, linguists assigned to the relevant locales are assigned relevant terms.
If, instead, you chose to validate term entries, when you click OK, term entries in your terminology database that need approval are sent through your validation workflow, which creates a project with tasks for each entry, and each entry can contain multiple terms.
Figure 1. Simple Validation Workflow
Be sure that the User Type for the Workflow Role or specific user to whom the Review step is assigned has Can modify TD and Can modify term statuses permissions. When an assigned user with these permissions selects a task in the Task List and clicks Edit, the View Term dialog box displays for the term and the user can approve the term by selecting or . The user can also choose to Reject the term or Deactivate it As Deprecated. The term viewer, when opened in this mode, only allows changes or validation for the term being viewed. You cannot pop open other term viewers to manipulate other terms. Also, you cannot add or delete other terms in this term viewer.