Searching for terms

First step: open the Vocabulary Tool landing page and select a vocabulary, e.g., the Default Vocabulary. 

Producers can edit every small piece of text, known as a microcopy, by using the Terms List tab. The Terms List tab is also where producers can add, edit, and publish changes to terms.

Producers can find the term they’re looking for by searching for:

• Term codes: This hyphenated text signifies what the term is. For example, new-wonderful-term. Each term code is unique and can’t be duplicated in the Vocabulary Tool. If you know the term code you're looking for, this is a very useful way of looking for a term you'd like to change.
• A description of what a term is: Producers can describe the action the term performs.
• The term (either translated or not translated): Find the term you’re looking for by entering it into the search bar. The search function will also work if you search for the translated version. For example, if you’re looking for the term Welcome, searching for Benvenuto will also work if you’ve translated the term into Italian.

Producers can also use more filters to search for what they need in the Vocabulary Tool. These filters are:

1. Context: If the term has been tagged, search for the category it was tagged in.
2. Languages: Which language the term can be translated into.
3. Users: Who changed the term. This is great if you’ve recently edited a term and you want to find out what you recently changed.
4. Other Filters:
   1. Show terms with missing translations: Filters terms that have at least one missing translation.
      Consider combining the Languages filter with the missing translations filter. That combination gives the meaningful result containing all the terms that have no translation for the filtered languages.
      
   2. Show out-of-date terms: When one term with multiple translations has only been updated in one language, this feature filters the translations that haven't been updated.
   3. Show terms comments: Filters terms that contain comments.