When you create a new glossary term, you must also select a corresponding definition link, which is an attachment containing the definition for the term. If you do not select a definition link attachment for a term, no glossary links are created in your content for that term. A definition link can be any type of attachment: package item, web page, or URL. When you publish your content to Player outputs, glossary terms appearing in bubble text in topic frames or web page text are linked to their definitions as in the Developer. Users can click glossary links to display the attachments containing the definitions of the glossary terms. Glossaries are also included in the Training Guide and Instructor Manual as a list of terms and definitions at the end of the document. If you publish content containing more than one glossary to one of these document outputs, the glossaries are merged and presented as one alphabetical list. If a term appears in more than one of the merged glossaries, it is listed multiple times, once for each glossary in which it appears. However, only those terms with definition link attachments that typically appear in document outputs are included in the glossary. Specifically, the types of definition links included in the glossary sections of document outputs are package files (graphics only), web pages, and URLs (addresses only). Therefore, if a definition link is a non-graphic package file, such as an Excel spreadsheet, the corresponding term is not included in the document glossary.
To select a package file or web page as a definition link for a glossary term:
Note: At step 3, you can also click Create new web page to create a new web page and link to it in one step. When you do so, you first specify the name of the web page and the Library folder in which it should be saved. The Web Page Editor then launches in a new tab, displaying an empty web page.
To select a URL as a definition link for a glossary term: