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Import term base (new)

You can import data into a new term base or into an existing one.

How to get here

  1. Open memoQWeb in a web browser. Log in as an administrator, project manager, terminologist, or external user.
  2. Click the QTerm tab. The QTerm - Home page appears.
  3. Above the list, click Import new. The Import term base wizard appears.

What can you do?

Page 1 - Enter term base name and properties

Fill in the information fields you want. The Name field is required.

  • To go to Page 2: In the upper right corner, click Next.
  • To close the wizard and return to the Home screen without importing a term base: In the upper right corner, click Cancel.

    Page 2 - Select file(s) to be imported

ClosedImport a TBX term base

  1. Choose Import type: You can import term bases as a single TBX file or as TBX+XCS, zipped or unzipped. An XCS is a skeleton file that contains structural information for the TBX.
  2. Click Choose file and browse to the file to upload. If you chose Upload ZIP file above, select a ZIP file that has either a TBX and an XCS file or a single TBX file inside.
  3. If the imported term base contains picklists, you can make your QTerm term base more easily readable if you check the Replace underscores with spaces in pick list values check box.
  4. If the TBX file was created using SDL MultiTerm, check the Multiterm TBX model? check box.
  • To return to Page 1: In the upper right corner, click Back.
  • To close the wizard and return to the Home screen without importing a term base: In the upper right corner, click Cancel.
  • To import the term base data:In the upper right corner, click Start import.
ClosedImport a Multiterm term base

  1. Click the MultiTerm data tab.
  2. Choose Import type: You can import term bases as a pair of XDT+XML files, zipped or unzipped.
  3. Click Choose file and browse to the file(s) to upload. If you chose Upload ZIP file (use this option if the term base includes images) above, select a ZIP file that has an XDT and an XML file (and optionally, images) inside.
  4. To replace spaces in field names with underscores: Check the Import spaces in field names as underscore check box.
  5. To expand values in pick lists: Check the Automatically expand value set of pick lists check box.

Sometimes, picklists in MultiTerm are not defined in the term base definition in one central place; the value set can be expanded on the fly. This option allows you to expand the picklist definition. Meta-information is not skipped on import; the definition is expanded with those values instead.
Example: When you create a picklist value for a term base (at any level), you define a set of possible values as a domain. The picklist type meta will have one or more values from them: for example colors is the meta and red, green and blue are the values. During file import, the values for that picklist meta are detected, also those that are not among the possible values (e.g. purple). With this option, you can get the import automatically to add the new value to the value set and include the new value by the entry/lang/term. Otherwise the unknown value is omitted during the import.

  • To return to Page 1: In the upper right corner, click Back.
  • To close the wizard and return to the Home screen without importing a term base: In the upper right corner, click Cancel.
  • To import the term base data:In the upper right corner, click Start import.

When you finish

A term base import report is generated. If there are any errors, you can click the link on that page to download the report.

Click Close. The Term bases screen opens.