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title: "Glossary Configuration"
canonical: "https://support.covectors.io/space/GFCC/1452900356/Glossary%20Configuration"
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Depending on the possible access and editing restrictions, some users might not be able to either access or edit the global configuration. This is why we have included two types of configuration: the global one (active by default and applicable to all spaces and glossaries), and local/space configuration (to be activated when you wish to make changes only at a space level).

## Global configuration

The global configuration is activated by default and applies to all spaces and glossaries. Only designated Confluence admins have editing rights to perform changes.

To access the global configuration for the glossary, click on the “Settings” icon in the top bar menu. You will land on the global configuration page for Confluence. From there, click on “Glossary Configuration” in the left navigation menu.

The glossary configuration page consists of three main tabs:

1. Theme: Within the theme tab, you can change how terms are displayed and highlighted. There are three options available to you.

![image](media://db0ba57a-a15a-4924-9aae-814e9bae8bab)

**Term background**-**color:** choose the desired background for the highlighted terms. You can change the color either by using the color picker or by writing a correct hex format color (the color circle will change to the entered color if your entered code is correct).

**Term color: **Similar to the above process, you can change the terms' colors.

**Text style: **Select one or a combination of text styles. The available options include Bold, Italic, or underlined text.

All the performed changes will be immediately displayed within the “Theme Preview” box. This way, you can visualize changes as you make them without having to go back and forth between settings and spaces.

2. Highlight: The Highlight tab is where you configure which terms to highlight along with their sources, accuracy, and occurrence.

![image](media://9beed29c-cd48-466b-9df9-feb8dc250c67)

**Terms space(s) source(s): **Determine the space from which you want to highlight terms. Possible options include (1) Current: highlight only the terms that are saved in the current space glossaries, (2) All: highlight the terms that are saved in all the spaces’ glossaries, and (3) Custom: select the space's source from the available spaces in your instance; a multi-select is also possible.

**Highlight options: **Choose whether to highlight synonyms and/or abbreviations in addition to terms. If selected, both options will be highlighted similarly to terms.

**Accuracy: **Select one of two values, “Partially” or “Exactly”. If you select “Partially”, only the sub-term will be highlighted. For example, if you search for “Vect” within “Vectors”, only “Vect” would be highlighted and not the entire term. On the other hand, if you select “Exactly”, only the exact term would be highlighted.

**Occurrence: **Set the number of times a given term is highlighted. For example, if a term is repeated five times within the same page, then only the first one is highlighted. The number of occurrences is set to one by default.

3. Other: This tab contains two options. You can choose whether the search is case sensitive or if diacritic characters should be matched (For example, "piękny" would match "piekny". It is particularly helpful for languages such as French and  German that contain a host of special characters.

![image](media://3c0a503c-a9b7-4783-a3ec-01af62dba096)

## Local/space configuration

The local/space configuration allows you to modify settings specifically for a designated space. To do this, you need to access the glossary local configuration and enable the “Override global configuration” option. After completing this step, you can follow the same procedures outlined above to set your preferences.

To access the local/space configuration for the glossary, click on the “Space settings” menu option within your space settings, as shown below:

![image-20250806-103132.png](media://0596e017-60da-4198-983c-2e4dcbd5ac9b)

Navigate to the App Links section, and then proceed to the Glossary configuration interface.

![image-20250806-103321.png](media://b3f69b2b-dffd-4c3a-bae7-3d57485333c0)

You have the flexibility to adjust the space configuration to suit your specific needs for this area.