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Abbreviations

Fluency Direct also allows users to create a collection of abbreviations. This is a list of words or phrases that you use repeatedly but abbreviate when speaking.

Manage Abbreviations

When you open the Abbreviations dialog, you will see the screen below, which may or may not have entries populated, depending on your organization. To begin using the abbreviations feature, click the +Add button.

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Published Abbreviations

Published Abbreviations are those abbreviations that have been published by an administrator for use across a company or facility. These items will be available in the Abbreviations dialog but will contain a lock symbol to the right of them. If you are an admin, then the tool tip will display ‘Published via <group name>’. Non-admin FD Users will see a tool tip stating ‘Published by a Published Abbreviations administrator’’.

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When an abbreviation has been published, it is locked from both editing and deleting. Only an administrator can remove published items.

Note

For some published items such as Dictionary Items, Device Button mappings, and Data Set Items it is possible to modify them to a certain degree, For example, you can give your own pronunciation to a dictionary item. In some cases, you might want to revert that modification to the previous state published state. You can now do this via the “revert” context menu item available via right click.