Problem/Motivation

We use Taxonomy Term Glossary to great effect in providing students with help when it comes to dealing with the extraordinary number of synonyms that we tend to throw around in the Computer Science arena.

Originally we only intended to use to highlighting key terms within content but it soon became apparent that it is also priceless for highlighting terms when looking up the meaning of 'terms' themselves.

For example, in the illustration below, you can see someone the the term 'authentication' (1) being highlighted because it is in the Glossary...

taxonomy_term_glossary_highlight_authentication

When the student clicks through to 'Read more' (2), they are then taken to the term in the modal (3)...

taxonomy_term_glossary_click_through_to_authentication

...and in there, it is very useful to be able to have other terms (e.g. biometrics) highlighted too but the original term itself 'Authentication' should not really be highlighted as it might lead them to go around in circles.

Just to add to this, the same thing applies to Synonyms which we use extensively, synonyms of the current term should not ne highlighted as again they will lead to to go around in circles. In the example below both 2FA and TFA are synonyms of 'Two Factor Authentication'...

taxonomy_term_glossary_click_through_to_two_factor_authentication

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#5 Capture d’écran 2025-07-14 à 20.00.45.png61.56 KBmably
#2 taxonomy_term_glossary_click_through_to_two_factor_authentication.png25.95 KBsirclickalot
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sirclickalot created an issue. See original summary.

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mably commented

Sounds like an interesting feature to have. Will see what I can do.

mably opened merge request !45

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@sirclickalot can you give a try to this issue's MR?

A new option have been added to the Term Glossary configuration form allowing to disable self-referencing of terms:

Self-references config form

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@mably,

Very nice indeed!

Does not self-reference anymore (1) but does honour related synonyms (2) and (3)...

taxonomy_term_glossary_fixed

Thank you.

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mably commented

Are TFA and Biometrics defined as synonyms of the term Authentication ?

If it's the case they shouldn't be rendered as links. It works fine on my side 🤔

Should we merge this as is?

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No, they are not, 'Authentication' in our case has only one synonym which is 'authenticate'.

I think it's all good and you can merge away.

Thanks.

  • mably committed 196ba6f4 on 4.x 
    Issue #3535737 by sirclickalot, mably: Exclude self-referencing of terms
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Component: Miscellaneous » Code
Status: Needs review » Fixed

Merged! Thanks.

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V4.4.0-rc2 tested and verified as A OK with me.

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mably commented

Great, thanks @sirclickalot!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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