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The support for classic Reuse will end with the 2023.10 release. We've introduced a modernized Reuse feature with an improved UI and more checking capabilities. Learn more about it in our Reuse Quick Start.
If you want Acrolinx to harvest content, you’ll need to check with the Reuse Harvesting Target. For Reuse, Acrolinx ships one Reuse Harvesting Target per language. The Reuse Harvesting Target is a built-in Target that you can edit according to your needs. You can't delete this Target.
When you run an Acrolinx check with the Reuse Harvesting Target, Acrolinx will harvest sentences from the checked content. We recommend that you assign this Target specifically when you harvest. After the harvest is complete, it's best to unassign the Target.
Warning
Sentence harvesting is incompatible with Enable Confidential Checking. If you enable confidential checking, Acrolinx can’t harvest sentences from your content for Reuse.
Acrolinx collects harvested content in sentence banks. For the Reuse Harvesting Target to work, you need to create a sentence bank for every language that you want to harvest content from.
When you’re ready to harvest sentences from a specific piece of content, just assign the Reuse Harvesting Target.
To specify which sentence bank to use for harvested content, follow these steps:
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Open Reuse > Repository Tools > Sentence Harvesting.
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Check the last column Default for the sentence bank that you want Acrolinx to harvest into. You need to do this for every language.
If you don’t have any sentence banks yet, learn how to create sentence banks in our documentation.
After harvesting, you might want to check the content that Acrolinx harvested. You can delete phrases and wording that doesn't fit before you add the content to your repository.
To clean up a sentence bank, follow these steps:
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Open Reuse > Repository Tools > Sentence Harvesting.
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Click the sentence bank to open the list of harvested content.
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Use the check boxes to select the wording you want to delete.
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Click DELETE.
Note
The table also shows an older format of the Acrolinx Score. If you're not familiar with it, you can ignore it.
After you've harvested enough sentences, you can add them to a new or existing Reuse repository.
To add harvested content to a repository, follow these steps:
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Go to Reuse > Repository Tools > Sentence Harvesting.
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Use the checkboxes to select one or more sentence banks and click Add to Repository.
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In the Repository Options dialog, create or update a repository and click Next. When you update, you can choose to merge or replace the content of an existing repository.
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On the Cluster Settings page, you can set your clustering preferences. The Cluster Settings let you define how to group the sentences into clusters.
Setting
Description
Minimum word count
Defines the minimum number of words that need to be in a sentence before you can add the sentence to a cluster.
Minimum cluster size
Defines the minimum number of sentences that need to be in a cluster before you can add the cluster to the repository.
Cluster strictness
Defines the quality of clusters to add to the reuse repository.
Initial cluster status
Defines the initial status of all clusters in the reuse repository.
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Click Finish.
Acrolinx will group the sentences into clusters and add the clusters to the Reuse repository.
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After you’ve created or updated the repository, you can select the relevant repository on the Repository Overview page to view your clusters. Select your representative sentences directly in each cluster.