Work with terms

If you use the Term Verify tool in your Scripture () project workflow, you can do the steps listed below.

Prerequisites 

• The Term Verify tool must be displayed with the passage you will work with.

• If you need a different keyboard to type the vernacular language, it must be operational.

• You need a microphone and speakers, or a headset, if you will record and listen to audio.

• Click  to display  and Add Translation, if you do not already see them for the term.

Add a translation of a term

• If you will type or paste the translation of the term in your vernacular language, do these steps:

1. Click Add Translation.

2. Type or paste the word or words.

• If you will record the translation of the term as an audio file, do these steps:

1. Click  to display the record controls.

2. Click  (Select microphone) and then click the microphone you want to use, if necessary.

3. Click (Record) or press a keyboard shortcut and speak into your microphone.

4. Click  (Pause) when you are done speaking.

5. Click   (Play) to hear the audio recording. 

6. Click  (Delete) if you need to record () the translation again.

7. Click   (Close) to save the recording and hide the recording controls.

Add New Category (Online only)

1. Click (Add Discussion) to display an empty discussion.

2. Do this for as many categories as you want to add:

   • Click the Category down arrow () and then click Add New Category .

   • Click the New Category line and type a word or two to distinguish the new category.

   • Click to add the new category to the list and as the category for the current discussion.

3. If the last category you added is not the one you want for the current discussion, choose another category.

Alternatively, click CANCEL. The discussion is not saved, but the categories are saved.

Play a recorded term translation

• Click  (Play Translation) in the row that has the term you want to hear.

Click  (Play/Pause) to pause the playback.

Delete the translation of a term

• For the translation of a term you want to delete, click .

Sort and Show terms

Do either of these steps:

• Click the Sort and Show down arrow () and then click what you want to see in the Source column.

• Click  and then click the language for the glosses in the Source column.

Exclude a category of terms

• Click the Exclude down arrow () and then select () the category you want to exclude from the list of terms.

Hide/show specific terms

• You can select () Hide , to hide specific terms. You set theses terms to be hidden in the Term Detail dialog box. 

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