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Changing categories in MultiTerm termbases

Eva Repolusk-Stoppel

Last week, I created a really complex termbase definition. Now I changed my mind about a category, and I would like to remove it from the definition. I have not entered a single term in the termbase, and in the Termbank Manager it says 0 Terms, 0 Entries. Still I get an error message along the lines of “The termbank selected is not empty and cannot be changed as requested”. Any idea what I can do to manipulate the category?

And note: even if the termbank was not empty, I think MultTerm should allow deleting categories after showing an appropriate dialogue with a warning!

Thanks in advance!
Eva
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    Eva

    I don't know why you cannot change the definition although your TB is empty, but on your additional note, I can confirm that you cannot remove any fields or picklist values from a populated termbase. You may as well add fields or values, but you cannot remove any. This makes sense because MultiTerm would not know what to do with entries that contain the fields or values that you want to remove.

    The procedure to choose in such situations is to export the content of your existing termbase, create a new termbase based on the existing one, edit the defintion by removing the fields and values you want to get rid of and then reimport then entries into the new "restructured" termbase.
    Works fine and at the same time reorganizes your termbase:-)

    Walter
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    Thanks, Walter, for your clarifications! Looks like I was going about it the wrong way - I wanted to create an ultra-complete TB definition, use it for a while and then delete the fields that turned out to be rarely used.

    (I really think this should be possible. If, in 1000 entries, I have used the the "grammatical gender" category just three times, and then I decide I don't need it after all, I'm perfectly happy to surrender the three times I have typed "f." or "m." after Multiterm warns me I'm about to do so.)

    However, from what you tell me, it seems to be better to start with a super-slim definition and then expand it as work progresses, although this strikes me as ineffective, because in order to do so, I'll always have to go back to Multiterm and the definition. I think my approach would have been quicker and more user-friendly. But it really doesn't matter that much in this case, I just wanted to establish how this is supposed to work.

    Thanks again, Walter!
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  • 0 in reply to Walter Blaser
    Thanks, Walter, for your clarifications! Looks like I was going about it the wrong way - I wanted to create an ultra-complete TB definition, use it for a while and then delete the fields that turned out to be rarely used.

    (I really think this should be possible. If, in 1000 entries, I have used the the "grammatical gender" category just three times, and then I decide I don't need it after all, I'm perfectly happy to surrender the three times I have typed "f." or "m." after Multiterm warns me I'm about to do so.)

    However, from what you tell me, it seems to be better to start with a super-slim definition and then expand it as work progresses, although this strikes me as ineffective, because in order to do so, I'll always have to go back to Multiterm and the definition. I think my approach would have been quicker and more user-friendly. But it really doesn't matter that much in this case, I just wanted to establish how this is supposed to work.

    Thanks again, Walter!
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