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Adding terms to a vocabulary

Quick steps

  1. Open the vocabulary editor
  2. Select the vocabulary that you want to add a new term to.
  3. Click on the 'Terms' tab at the top of the vocabulary editor form
  4. Click the 'Add Term(s)' button at the bottom
  5. Enter the new Term (in the 'Term' box) and press Add

You may optionally add a definition for the term at this time also.

Illustrated steps

Open the vocabulary editor

Start either from the main RIMMF window

or, use the context menu while editing a record

Select the vocabulary that you want to add a term to

Note: Skip this step if you opened the vocab editor using the context menu.

Click the arrow to activate the drop-down list and select your vocab:

Click on the 'Terms' tab at the top of the vocabulary editor form

Then click the 'Add Term(s)' button at the bottom of the form

Enter the new Term (in the 'Term' box)

Optionally, you may enter a definition at this time too.
When you are finished, press 'Add'.

The new term is added to the selected vocabulary; the new term will be available for selection whenever you edit the element linked to this vocabulary in RIMMF.

Note: to facilitate adding multiple terms at once, follow these steps on the 'Add vocabulary term' page:

Pressing <Tab> in this context jumps to the 'Add' button; pressing <Enter> executes the 'Add' action, which, after it adds the term to the vocabulary, clears the term from the edit box and returns the cursor to it, ready for the entry of another term.


Note: that if the vocabulary is defined as an 'open' vocabulary, you can add new terms simply by typing them into the appropriate element during editing. Follow this link for more details about Open vocabularies