You can configure access to the term contribution and "Add comment" forms, by editing user
roles or enabling anonymous term contribution. If you require your users to log in to the term
contribution form, you can also configure how long a term contribution session should last.
Defining Which Users Can Contribute and Comment on Terms
To contribute and comment on terms, users must first have a role with
the privileges
Contribute Terms
and
Add comments to existing terms
, respectively.
Before you provide your users with information on accessing the term
contribution page, ensure that the relevant users have a role with the appropriate privileges.
You can find additional information on the user management in the
User Management
section of the
Acrolinx Server Administration Guide
.
Enabling Anonymous Term Contribution
By default, all users must enter their Acrolinx login details once before they can start
contributing terms. However, there might be users in your organization that only use the Term
Browser and do not have an Acrolinx user ID. Without a user ID, these users cannot contribute
terms. You can enable anonymous term contribution so that users who do not have an Acrolinx
user ID can also contribute terms.
Anonymous term contribution must be activated in your license. If you receive a licensing
error when using this feature, contact your Acrolinx project consultant to have your license
updated.
When anonymous term contribution is enabled, users can access the term contribution and "Add
comment" form without entering login details. Any changes that anonymous users make are
attributed to the built-in user
termcontribution
. To review terms and
comments that anonymous users have added, filter for changes made by the user
termcontribution
in the Terminology Manager.
Tip:
If you want to have a way of identifying users while anonymous term
contribution is enabled, add a custom identifier field to your
term contribution
template. For example, you could add a custom field called
"Submitted by" and make the field a
required field
on the term contribution page. Users can enter their name
or email address in this field when they contribute a term or add a comment.
To enable anonymous term contribution, follow these steps:
Open your overlay of the core server properties file.
You find the overlay for the core server properties file in the following location:
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