{"id":461,"date":"2016-06-17T16:59:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/?page_id=461"},"modified":"2025-06-18T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:30:05","slug":"lexicon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/lexicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Language Explorer (FLEx) Lexicon provides a large number of built-in fields, and you can add custom fields. The view of a single Entry (in Lexicon Edit view) allows you to customize which fields you see; by default most built-in fields are not shown unless they contain data, to save space. More fields are displayed by using the toggle \u201cShow Hidden Fields\u201d. Each entry optionally has a dictionary preview shown above it. The lexical data can be displayed quite differently in the print-oriented Dictionary view, e.g. the order and formatting of fields can be changed in the Dictionary view.<a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/10\/lexicon_big_1000.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/10\/lexicon-plain_400.jpg\" alt=\"Lexicon Edit View\" title=\"Click to view screenshot with labels\" \/><\/a><img title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the most powerful tools in FLEx is <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/lexicon\/bulk-edit\/\">Bulk Edit<\/a>. This view allows you to make a variety of changes across any number of selected entries.<\/p>\n<p>Other tools in the Lexicon area include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/lexicon\/lexicon-edit\/\">Lexicon Edit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/lexicon\/dictionaries\/\">Dictionary Layouts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/lexicon\/new-entry\/\">New Entries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/lexicon\/lexical-relations\/\">Lexical Relations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/lexicon\/semantic-domains\/\">Semantic Domains<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/features\/orientation-to-fieldworks\/lexicon\/import-export\/\">Import and Export<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Language Explorer (FLEx) Lexicon provides a large number of built-in fields, and you can add custom fields. The view of a single Entry (in Lexicon Edit view) allows you to customize which fields you see; by default most built-in fields are not shown unless they contain data, to save space. More fields are displayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-461","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions\/4887"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}