{"id":124,"date":"2020-02-17T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/metashare-help-admin-manual-term-store-definitions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:13:52","slug":"metashare-help-admin-manual-term-store-definitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/taxonomy\/metashare-help-admin-manual-term-store-definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Term store definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On this page we explain the definition of the&nbsp;three highlighted boxes in the image below.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3395\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-168-1.png\" alt=\"The definition of different elements in the term store\" width=\"345\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-168-1.png 345w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-168-1-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Term set group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A term set group contains one or several term sets.<\/li><li>Permissions can be set on a term set group (define which users that should be able to edit its term sets and terms).<\/li><li>Term set groups can be Created or Deleted. If deleted, all term sets under them will also be deleted.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Term set<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A term set contains terms that can be hierarchically structured.<\/li><li>A term set can be open (allow normal users to add terms to it) or closed (terms can just be managed by term store administrators).<\/li><li>Term sets can be created, renamed, imported (requires a term set import file), deleted, moved to another term set group or copied, see this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/adminmanual\/how-to-manage-term-sets\">page&nbsp;<\/a>for further instructions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Term<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A term can be available for tagging or just used as a grouping of terms.<\/li><li>Terms can be created, renamed (when a term is renamed, the change is not propagated till a timer job propagates these changes to all workspaces), moved, merged, deleted, sorted or reused\/pinned,&nbsp;see this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/adminmanual\/how-to-manage-terms\">page&nbsp;<\/a>for further instructions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting started with MetaShare: metashare help admin manual term store definitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10707,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-124","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12522,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions\/12522"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}