Modify Glossaries
In this guide:
Add, Modify, and Delete Draft Terms
Update a Glossary with a CSV File
Published vs. Draft Terms
Publish
Add, Modify, and Delete Draft Terms
When you add, modify, or delete terms, the changes won't be applied until you publish them.
To add a term:
Select Add Draft Term
Enter a source and target phrase and click Add Draft Term
The term will appear in the list of terms with the status of ADDED
To modify a term:
Hover over its source and click Details
Edit the source or target and click Edit term
The term's status will change to MODIFIED
To delete a term from a draft:
Select the checkbox on the left, then click Delete
The term's status will change to DELETED
After the term is deleted from the Published section, it will appear in the Draft
You can also delete the term from an already published glossary, in case it is the Intento glossary.
Feedback can also be added to the Draft of the chosen glossary.
Refer to this article to learn more about submitting feedback.
Update a Glossary with a CSV File
You can add or update several terms at once by uploading a CSV file to an existing glossary. The file uses the same structure as when creating a glossary: one term per row, source and target in two columns, no headers (see format).
When you upload the file, if it contains any already existing words, choose how to handle terms that already exist in the glossary:
Overwrite existing terms: if a source term already exists, its translation is replaced with the one from your file.
Skip duplicated terms: existing terms are kept as they are, and the file's version is ignored.
In both cases:
New terms from the file are added to the glossary.
Terms that aren't in the file stay untouched. Uploading a CSV never replaces the whole glossary.
A term counts as existing when its source matches exactly, even if the translation is different. A source that differs only in capitalization (e.g., Car and car) is added as a separate term, as a custom variant.
Uploaded changes appear in Draft Terms as ADDED or MODIFIED. Click Publish to Production to apply them.
Example: your glossary has car → carro, and your file has car → automóvel and house → casa.
Overwrite existing terms | Skip duplicated terms | |
|---|---|---|
car | becomes automóvel | stays carro |
house | added | added |
Published vs. Draft Terms
When you edit a glossary, you will see Draft Terms/Published Terms tabs:
Switch to Draft Terms to see the glossary with all changes that have not been published yet.
Switch to Published to see the glossary the way it is published at the moment.
In the top right corner, you can see the metadata that contains the information about who has modified the terms and when the last update was:
Publish
When you're ready, click Publish to Production.
The changes in the glossary will be published and will affect translations from now on. DELETED terms will disappear from the list of terms. The status of ADDED and MODIFIED terms will change to PUBLISHED.
Apply changes to translation
In order to apply changes, please follow the guidelines described here https://help.inten.to/article/mt-studio-apply-glossaries-to-machine-translation.
Please note that the updates will take a few minutes to be reflected in the translations.