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Glossary Management

Extract candidate classes from vision statement, problem statement or any documentation with Textual Analysis.

Textual analysis

DB Visual ARCHITECT supports textual analysis for extracting candidate model elements from text document. The normal textual analysis process is to collect or prepare (noted in meeting) text document, paste the text document in textual analysis pane, read through the document, highlight and drag domain related nouns to workspace, write description in data dictionary, select good set of candidate item and then create model elements from candidate items. Textual analysis supports extracting class and package.

Glossary grid

Identify, document and manage domain terms with glossary grid. Each term can have multiple aliases. All terms will be highlighted and linked in model element documentation. The following movie demonstrates the basic usage of glossary grid.

Group glossary terms by label

You can use label to group your glossary terms. One term can have multiple labels and you can filter glossary terms by label.

Hunt for Glossary Terms

Clarify words that might cause confusion well in advance. Add them to glossary right where you found them. Be it in Textual Analysis or in use case diagrams. No need to go elsewhere.