We've had a number of support requests raised over the last few weeks about how to add words to a dictionary in the Sitemorse Spell Checker.  Particularly words that need specific capitalisation and also designating words that may or may not appear CAPITALISED.

Looking in more detail we found that we weren't consistently applying rules and that the current interface didn't lend itself to easily detail how words should be added to the dictionary to take account of capitals in odd combinations - in, say, a brand name.

We have addressed both issues and the update has been made live this week.

The big change you will see is when choosing to add words to the dictionary.  When you click the Add button, rather than simply getting a message saying the word has been added to the dictionary, you are taken to the same page as when you click on the actual word.  This screen gives you the detail of where the word occurs on your site but more importantly gives you various options for adding the word to a dictionary.  Take a look at an example of the page

The options are that the words can be in the form of

either:-

• Sentence-case
  • the word can appear in any form e.g. renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire
• Exact match only 
  • the word is only valid in the specific format we found on the site e.g. SpellChecker

or, a combination of:-

• Lower-case
  • the word can appear entirely in lower case
• Title-case
  • the word can appear with first letter as a Capital
• Upper-case
  • the word can appear entirely in CAPITALS

If we find "versions" of the word in one of your dictionaries we will show which dictionaries it appears in next to that style entry.  So, if we are flagging up the Upper-case and lower-case versions as being in error but the word appears in your custom dictionary in Title-case we will flag this up to you as in the example above.  You can then check the tick-box next to Upper-case or Lower-case if they are permissible as well, or any of the other options that are appropriate.

You can see that the Exact match only option isn't present as there is nothing special about the capitalisation of the word as found on the site and, also, that the Title-case check box is checked and greyed.  It is not possible to uncheck a check box to delete the word from a dictionary (as the word may appear in multiple dictionaries and you may not wish us to delete all occurrances).  If you wanted to remove the Title-case version of the word click on the link to the dictionary it exists in and delete it from the dictionary.

Hopefully, this will address the issues raised with us recently and benefit everyone using the service.