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Publish a glossary of terms with a dashboard

Anyone with edit access to the board · Updated 8 Nov 2026

A glossary publishes definitions of your terms with the board. Set it up from the title band in the dashboard editor, under What a reader can ask. Readers get:

  • a Glossary link in the header that opens the list of terms;
  • the first use of each term on the board underlined, with its definition on hover;
  • a printed Glossary section at the end of the last content page, for PDF and print.

Add terms and publish the glossary

  1. Click the title band.
  2. Under What a reader can ask, find Publish a glossary, with the term count ("No terms yet" when empty) and Edit terms.
  3. Click Edit terms to open the Glossary dialog ("These definitions travel with the board").
  4. Fill in each row's Term and "What it means on this board". Add a term adds a row; the Remove bin deletes one.
  5. Click Save, or Cancel.

Restore from context appears when the board's attached context files define terms. If you've made edits, it asks "Replace every term with the context's definitions?" first. See Give the AI context.

How the glossary behaves

  • The Publish a glossary checkbox stays disabled until there is at least one term. Edit terms is always available.
  • Saving a list with terms turns publishing on. Saving an empty list turns it off.
  • Rows with only a term or only a definition are dropped when you save, with a message such as "One unfinished term was not saved".
  • Until you edit the list, the board publishes the terms from its context files and follows changes to them. Terms from context show the context's name as their source.
  • After your first edit, your list is used as it is. Rewording a context term removes its source credit.
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