Reuse terms

Terms, and their children, within a Term Set can be reused in another Term Set. This ensures that a term need not be duplicated and maintained in more than one location.

In the scenario to the right, Bonzai Intranet’s Footer Navigation is replicated from its parent Company (“BankGroup”) to its German subsidiary (“BankGroup Germany”).

Considerations

• The term’s settings and properties are synced between the source and its ‘reuses’.
• The term can be modified in either the source location or its reused location. This can be problematic if the owner of the Source Terms does not want others to be able to make modifications to the terms.
• Only the terms themselves are reused, the Term Set itself (i.e. the container) is not, therefore an identical Term Set needs to be created in the secondary location and needs to be maintained independently. In addition, because any Custom Sort order is applied at the term set level, this will also need to be manually duplicated.
• Even though the children of a term are included when a term is reused, the sort order of its children is not preserved.
• This method allows the owner of the Secondary Term Set (“BankGroup Germany”) to add their own unique terms to the list.

Reusing Terms

Shared properties