Build Glossary/Lexicon of Business Terms with SharePoint 1

[kjv1611]

At our company, we've been using the wiki pages to build things such as internal help files, glossaries, etc, and I just got to thinking:

Can this be done in more of a CMS style with SharePoint?

In other words, is there a way to build a content type that can be referenced in a "dictionary" format in this manner?

For instance, let's say we have a list of words with their definitions. The words are:
Apple, Orange, Box, Plank, Brick, Water, Morter, Hammer, Screw Driver

And for those, we want to have different methods of viewing them - say different filters.

So, if stored correctly, we could have the filters call them up so they will be listed like this:

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Consumables:
Apple, Orange, Water

Food:
Apple, Orange

Wooden:
Box, Plank

Building Materials:
Plank, Brick, Water, Morter

Tools:
Hammer, Screw Driver
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My first thought is that perhaps this could be done with a certain type of library. But I'm not really sure right away as to which way would be good for going with this.

At this point, this is more or less just a suggestion/discussion type item, not really something definitely being implemented.

Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions/references.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[dinger2121]

Hope I'm understanding this correctly....
Can you create a custom list with metadata that can be a lookup from another list. In the second list, you can have your categories (Consumables, Food, etc.). When someone adds a new item to the list, you can have them select a category. That will then be your metadata, and you can create custom views with grouping that can then be displayed in a web part.

 

[kjv1611]

Quite possibly. What I'm thinking about is that the new item (term to be defined in the specific case) would have a title (the term itself, I suppose), perhaps a metadata reference to the type/group it fits under, and then the body would be the definition.

But I'm not sure about it just being a list. I'm sure I just need to get my brain wrapped around the way SharePoint handles things a little better.

Thanks for the thoughts so far.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[dinger2121]

How much information are you hoping to store. You could also looking at creating a document library with custom metadata fields. This gives you more flexibility regarding how much data you can store.

 

[kjv1611]

Well, that I'm not 100% sure is totally defined as of yet. A library was one of the options I was thinking we could look into myself, but I'm not sure.

If I get a chance, I'll see what I can find along those lines. Thankfully, I won't be the only one involved in this particular idea/project. If it happens, it'll be pretty big - for our company.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me