The below example shows how to define an export text format in the following form:
Blood disorders
UF: Haematologic disorders
BT: Diseases
NT: Anaemia
NT: Haemophilia
NT: Leukaemia
RT: Lymphatic system disorders
Dan: Blodsygdomme
Nld: Bloedziekten
Far: اختلال خوني
Fin: Veritaudit
Fra: Maladie du sang
Deu: Blutkrankheiten
Ell: ΑΙΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΔΙΑΤΑΡΑΧΕΣ
Ita: Malattie del sangue
Nor: Blodsykdommer
Ptg: Doenças do sangue
Esp: Enfermedades de la sangre
Sve: Blodsjukdomar
Haematologic disorders
Use: Blood disorders
Click on the User Defined Text Format button in the Preferences group of the Tools ribbon tab page.
Put the cursor in the 'Format' box, and clear the current format.
Start the example by adding a 'Main Term' tag in the 'Format' box. To do this, set the field tag item to 'Main Term' and click on 'Add' button. The current format in the 'Format' box will be changed to "<#MT>".
Now we need a line feed/carriage return character after the main term. There are two ways: a) put the cursor at the end of main term tag and press 'Enter' to move the cursor to the beginning of the next line. b) Set the 'Special Character Tag' to the 'Carriage return/Line feed' item click the 'Add' button to insert the proper CRLF tag at the end of the format string. We use the first method to add the CRLF in the format string.
Now
we need to add the USE and UF fields. These are repeatable fields.
Set the 'Field Tag' item to the 'Used For Terms' and click on 'Add'
button. Again, Set the 'Field Tag' item to the 'Use Terms' and click
on 'Add' button. The format string in the 'Format' box should be like
this:
"<#MT>
{~<#UF>[CRLF]}{~<#USE>[CRLF]}"
Notice to the above repeatable fields. They both are between curly
brackets. There is a tilde (~) before UF and USE simple tags to determine
them as the primary tags. Usually we separate the items of the elements
by a separator (e.g. a comma, a semicolon or a line feed). by default
the application adds a 'Carriage return/Line feed' for each item of
the repeatable field. If you prefer to use another separator, you
can delete the [CRLF] tag and insert your favorite separator.
To
add "USE:" and "UF:" symbols before each line
of these repeatable tags, simply write them exactly after the left
curly brackets of the current format. So the content of the 'Format'
box will be"
"<#MT>
{UF: ~<#UF>[CRLF]}{USE: ~<#USE>[CRLF]}"
As
you can see, before each element there is a tab character to make
an indent at the start of each line. So put a TAB tag after the left
curly brackets. Now the 'Format' content is:
"<#MT>
{[TAB]UF: ~<#UF>[CRLF]}{[TAB]USE: ~<#USE>[CRLF]}"
If
you export you current thesaurus using 'Export to user define text
format', the result would be like this:
Blood disorders
UF: Haematologic disorders
Haematologic disorders
Use: Blood disorders
Repeat the steps 5 to 7 to add other repeatable tags (BT, NT, RT, etc.) to the 'Format' box.
The only remaining step is adding the main term translations tags. To do so, simply write the [TAB] and language symbol followed by a semicolon and a space and its proper tag (each one in a separated line).
The
final format should be like this:
<#MT>
{[TAB]UF: ~<#UF>[CRLF]}{[TAB]USE: ~<#USE>[CRLF]}{[TAB]BT<#BTL>:
~<#BT>[CRLF]}{[TAB]NT<#NTL>: ~<#NT>[CRLF]}{[TAB]RT:
~<#RT>[CRLF]}
[TAB]Dan: <#Dan>
[TAB]Nld: <#Nld>
[TAB]Far: <#Far>
[TAB]Fin: <#Fin>
[TAB]Fra: <#Fra>
[TAB]Deu: <#Deu>
[TAB]Ell: <#Ell>
[TAB]Ita: <#Ita>
[TAB]Nor: <#Nor>
[TAB]Ptg: <#Ptg>
[TAB]Esp: <#Esp>
[TAB]Sve: <#Sve>