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How to Add Glossary Terms	/how-to-guides/guide-for-data-users/glossary

How to Add Glossary Terms

• From the Explore page, select a data asset and click on the edit icon or + Add for Glossary Term.
• Search for the relevant tags. You can either type and search, or scroll to select from the options provided.
• Click on the checkmark to save the changes.

{% image src="/images/v1.8/how-to-guides/discovery/glossary1.png" alt="Add Glossary Terms" caption="Add Glossary Terms" /%}

You can view all the associated glossary terms in the right panel.

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Glossary Terms and Tags

If Tags are associated with a Glossary Term, then applying that glossary term to a data asset, will also automatically apply the associated tags to that data asset. For example, the glossary term ‘Account’ has a PII.Sensitive tag associated with it. When you add a glossary term to a data asset, the associated tags also get added.

{% image src="/images/v1.8/how-to-guides/governance/tag5.png" alt="Glossary Term and Associated Tags" caption="Glossary Term and Associated Tags" /%}

{% image src="/images/v1.8/how-to-guides/governance/tag6.png" alt="Glossary Term and Tag gets Added to the Data Asset" caption="Glossary Term and Tag gets Added to the Data Asset" /%}

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