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1. Overview
The Global custom dictionary is a special mechanism that allows creating company-wide dictionaries that are intended to extend the vocabulary of the standard dictionary with custom words specific to your industry, domain, etc. All All the words added to a custom dictionary will be available for all for all users of a web application within a company.
Custom The custom dictionaries for Cloud customers are saved and stored on the WebSpellChecker Cloud servers. Such dictionaries can be created and modified only by a person who is authorized to access to the account panel on the webspellchecker.net websitecom website.
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2. Availability
Custom dictionaries are available for all customers who
have either trial or paid subscription to WebSpellChecker Cloud
Services.
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3. Getting started with custom dictionaries
To get started with the custom dictionary functionality:
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- Locate the Dictionaries section on the main page of your account and add a new dictionary. As soon as new dictionary is added, it will be displayed on the list of your custom dictionaries.
4. Create custom dictionary
4.1. Navigate to the Dictionaries tab.
4.2. Under your subscription section, click Add New Dictionary button to create a new dictionary.
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- Each custom dictionary is tied to a customer ID of a specific subscription.
3. Create Custom Dictionary
3.1. Sign in to your account panel at the webspellchecker.net website using your customer ID and password. These credentials were sent to an email address specified during initial subscription to the Cloud Services.
3.2. Go to the Dictionaries section and click Add Custom Dictionaries.
.3. Fill in all the necessary fields to create a new custom dictionary and click
Create.
- Type a dictionary name (the dictionary name should be unique and use only Latin characters or/and digits);
- Add or copy/paste the words separated by space or comma that you want to appear in the dictionary.
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Each unit in a dictionary is a separate word which can contain language-specific letters and digits. Don't use any specific symbols (e.g. math symbols) in the dictionary as it will fail to compile and won't work eventually. |
- Select a language to apply a new custom dictionary for. The words from this custom dictionary will be used to extend the default wordlist of a chosen language dictionary.
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.4. Apply the changes made to the service configuration on your web page or a web app.
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The information about custom dictionaries is encoded in an encrypted customer ID key. If you add a new custom dictionary, or delete an existing one or just change the state of a dictionary from Enabled to Disable or vice versa, it change the information about custom dictionary(ies), and an encrypted customer ID key accordingly. Thus, in order to apply your changes, you are required to obtain the latest version of your encrypted customer ID and update the old key in your configuration with a new one. |
- Download a new configuration file (config.ini) which contains your regenerated encrypted customer ID key.
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- Update your current encrypted customer ID with a new one in the service configuration on your web page or web app.
3.5. Verify the work of custom dictionary functionality.
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- Once the dictionary is created, a unique dictionary ID will be assigned to your custom dictionary as shown below.
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<script type="text/javascript" data-wsc-autosearch="true" src="http://svc.webspellchecker.net/spellcheck31/wscbundle/wscbundle.js"></script>
<script>
window.WEBSPELLCHECKER_CONFIG = {
serviceId: 'your-service-ID',
lang: 'en_US',
customDictionaryIds: '100839'
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4.4. Verify if the custom dictionary functionality works correctly:
- Before trying to test a new custom dictionary, it is strongly recommended to clean your browser cache.
- Go to your web page and enter a sentence or a list of words that have been added
- to a new custom dictionary. The words that are present in your custom dictionary should be considered as correct. Moreover, if you try to misspell any of these words,
- you should get
- the correct word as a suggestion for correction in the list of suggestions.
5. Edit
custom dictionary
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4.2. Go to the Dictionaries tab and choose "List of Custom Dictionaries"
To edit a custom dictionary, navigate to the Dictionaries section and, under your subscription section, select a dictionary you want to edit
4.4. Click Edit
4.5. Change fields you need to edit
4.6. Click Save button
5. Delete Custom Dictionary
5.1. Sign in to your account section at www.webspellchecker.net, using your customer ID and password to login into the account. The following information is provided via email after subscription.
5.2. Go to the Dictionaries tab and choose "List of Custom Dictionaries"
(Actions –> Edit icon).
5.2. Modify the required fields (e.g. add new words) and click Save.
6. Delete custom dictionary
- Navigate to the Dictionaries section and select your subscription. Go to the list of the dictionaries under this subscription.
- Select the dictionary you want to
- delete. Click
5.5. Download the updated configuration file
5.6. Update your encrypted Customer ID in the configuration
5.7. Clean the browser cache
6. Custom Dictionary Verification
6.1. Open any demo page with instance, which contains WSC/SCAYT products
6.2. Write a new words – they shouldn't underlined with the red line
6.3. Make mistake in any of them and check the suggestions. Words from the Custom Dictionary are in the drop-down suggestion list.
- the Delete icon.
- Apply the changes made to the service configuration on your web page or web app (see more details in section 4.3).
