Showing only Approved Metapedia Terms

[Former Member]

This question is two fold:

1) Is there a way to only show approved metapedia terms?

2) How have others managed their metapedia terms in a "multi-tier" environment (dev / qa / prod)? Do you promote your terms / changes through different environments or do you manage your terms in one environment?  What is SAPs suggested best practice here?

I'm trying to achieve the scenario where metapedia users only see approved terms. Right now we are controlling this through drafting the terms in one environment and then exporting / importing them into another environment as approved.

Thanks!!

Tom

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

This can be achieved by setting up appropriate user permissions. Note that for Metapedia there are predefined user groups - Metapedia User, Metapedia Author, Metapedia Approver and Metapedia Administrator.

Among these groups Metapedia Users can only view approved terms. Metapedia Author, Approvers participate in the process of creating the draft definition, refining it and approving it. Once the term is approved, it is visible to Metapedia Users. Also if for some reason author starts revising an approved term - the changes made by the authors are not visible to Metapedia User until the revised term definition is approved.

Given this context, you should be able to manage all Metapedia activities in the same environment. You do not need to have separate Dev and Prod environment for Metapedia scenarios.

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

Have you made any progress with your query on how to manage terms and changes through environments? Currently we are looking at alternate options to export and import between environments, preferrably an option to promote the changes and deletes along with the audit history of the term.

Is this option available? We are on Info. Steward 4.2

[Former Member]

These questions are still outstanding for me.  I was looking for more of a programmatic solution that would essentially always hide terms that are not approved from the general user base.

We have been leveraging the export and import functions for the metapedia.

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

You can filter the approved metapedia terms by clicking "filter by status" button-->check mark the approved column" &  click apply.

Then you can see the approved metapedia terms.

Thanks

Krishna Mohan