How to :: create a glossary

Overview

At Toucan we believe in sharing more than data, we share stories. Stories need content and explanation.

Good stories push you to take action! That’s why we have the action-panel.

From this panel, you can make a Glossary available to all your users 📖 .

You can specify a glossary for your whole application. Terms can be specific to a story or common to several or all.

🔥 Awesome tool for a strong data storytelling right ?

Create a glossary

Terms can be setup at the story level directly from the Studio.

Note

Want term’s definition on your home page? Why not use the text tile for it?

The glossary setup happens in the Action panel from the story view mode.

Just follow the steps and you’ll be all set

🌍 Language in the Glossary :: How to manage different languages ?

If you want to add a glossary in different languages: Please check the documentation about the language 💡 You can apply traduction in your terms title and their description

⚒️ Advanced :: code mode configuration

In the front_config.cson you can manually add glossary terms as follow :

additionalPanel:
  glossary:
    title: 'Glossary'
    terms: [
        {
          slides: [10000,10001]
          term: 'First term'
          meaning: 'Interesting definition'
        }
        {
          slides: [10002,10003]
          term: 'Second term'
          meaning: 'Interesting definition bis'
        }
      ]

In just a few clicks everything will be available to your user. Don’t forget to push to production 😃