Merging one term into another

Lucía tagged Counting Pumpkin Seeds with Pumpkin; Ana later typed Pumpkins on another lesson. Ben merged Pumpkin into Pumpkins, so there's one keyword.

A merge moves every tag from one term to the other, in every language and in what both editors and readers see, then deletes the first term. Its labels become synonyms of the term it was merged into, so typing Pumpkin still finds Pumpkins.

Try it: compare the keywords on Counting Pumpkin Seeds' two saved versions, then read Pumpkins' synonyms.

Counting Pumpkin Seeds, after a keyword was merged into Pumpkins

Its saved versions, read now

Saved on 6 May 2026Ana RodríguezWorkingPublished
Keywords
- Pumpkins
- Outdoors
Saved on 4 May 2026Lucía Fernández
Keywords
- Pumpkin, deleted since, merged into Pumpkins

The keyword it was merged into

Pumpkins

Label: PumpkinsNo Spanish label yet, so Spanish versions show the English one.
Synonyms: PumpkinCalabaza
As a tag: Lessons can be tagged with it
Held by: 3 lesson versions, counting each language and each working and published version

A change to this keyword reaches every lesson at once. Terms have no saved versions and aren't published.

What the audit log names, newest first

Change	Made by	Moved the tag on
Merged Pumpkin into Pumpkins	Ben Carter	Counting Pumpkin Seeds, in English
Saved Measuring Pumpkins	Ana Rodríguez	Nothing
Added the keyword Pumpkins	Ana Rodríguez	Nothing

Counting Pumpkin Seeds's working and published version has Keywords: Pumpkins; and Outdoors. Its older saved version, from 4 May 2026, holds a keyword deleted since, whose label isn't kept. Pumpkins's synonyms are now Pumpkin and Calabaza. The merge saved no new version.

From the sample curriculum

content-sdk took 172 ms

Find Counting Pumpkin Seeds57 ms
Read the vocabularies' terms132 ms
Find the people named102 ms
Find the keyword Pumpkins132 ms
List the saved versions of Counting Pumpkin Seeds6 ms
Count the lessons holding Pumpkins7 ms
Find the changes to Pumpkins7 ms
Read each saved version of Counting Pumpkin Seeds13 ms
Read those changes from the audit log5 ms
Find the lessons the changes reached15 ms

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Loading Counting Pumpkin Seeds

The merge changed the lesson without saving a new version: its history and its last save are as Ana left them, and it's still published. Its older saved version still points at Pumpkin, which no longer exists. The tools keep a deleted keyword's label, so that version shows Pumpkin, marked as deleted since and merged into Pumpkins.