Glossary Commands¶

Build and manage your business vocabulary with glossary terms, categories, and hierarchies in Microsoft Purview.

Quick Start

Manage glossaries, categories, terms, imports, exports, and assigned entity relationships for business metadata governance.

What You Can Do¶

Create and organize glossary terms and categories
Build hierarchical term structures
Import and export term sets from CSV
Assign terms to entities
Manage term relationships and synonyms

Quick Examples¶

List all termsCreate a termImport terms from CSVCreate category

pvw glossary readterms

pvw glossary createterm --help

pvw glossary createtermsimport --help

pvw glossary createcategory --help

Available Actions¶

Read Operations¶

Command	Purpose
`read`	Retrieve glossary metadata
`readdetailed`	Get detailed glossary information
`readterms`	List all terms
`readtermsheaders`	Get term headers
`readterm`	Get specific term
`readcategories`	List categories
`readcategoriesheaders`	Get category headers
`readcategory`	Get specific category
`readcategoryterms`	Get terms in category

Create Operations¶

Command	Purpose
`create`	Create glossary
`createterm`	Create single term
`createterms`	Create multiple terms
`createcategory`	Create category
`createcategories`	Create multiple categories
`createtermsimport`	Import terms from file

Update Operations¶

Command	Purpose
`put`	Update glossary
`putterm`	Update term
`puttermpartial`	Partially update term
`putcategory`	Update category
`putcategorypartial`	Partially update category
`putpartial`	Partially update glossary

Delete Operations¶

Command	Purpose
`delete`	Delete glossary
`deleteterm`	Delete term
`deletecategory`	Delete category

Entity Assignment¶

Command	Purpose
`createtermsassignedentities`	Assign term to entities
`puttermsassignedentities`	Update term assignments
`readtermsassignedentities`	List assigned entities
`deletetermsassignedentities`	Remove term assignment

Export & Import¶

Command	Purpose
`createtermsexport`	Export terms to file
`readtermsimport`	Get import status
`createtermsimport`	Start import job

Relationships¶

Command	Purpose
`readcategoryrelated`	Get related categories
`readtermsrelated`	Get related terms

Common Workflows¶

Build a Business Glossary¶

# 1. Create glossary
pvw glossary create --help

# 2. Create categories
pvw glossary createcategories --help

# 3. Add terms
pvw glossary createterms --help

# 4. Assign to entities
pvw glossary createtermsassignedentities --help

Bulk Import Terms¶

# Create CSV template
pvw glossary createtermsexport --help

# Import from CSV
pvw glossary createtermsimport --help

Manage Term Hierarchy¶

Terms and categories support hierarchical organization for complex business vocabularies.