Yes, making it optional would be a good idea.
People can toggle it on if you wish to avoid performing another lookup to get 
the preferred text further down stream...
I'll create a Jira for these.
--Pei

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Masanz, James J. [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:49 PM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] CTS - Adding preferred names
> 
> 
> We didn't save it to save space since the preferred text can be retrieved
> elsewhere once you have the code or cui.
> If we add it, I think we should have an option to turn off/on including it.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Chen, Pei
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:28 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DISCUSS] CTS - Adding preferred names
> 
> An idea/suggestion to the Common Type System:
> Add preferred/resolved names in addition to the CUI's/Codes.
> Mainly adding some additional fields to save this information:
> -Segement.preferredText<String>
> -IdentifiedAnnotation.preferredText<String> or
> UmlsConcept.preferredText<String>
> 
> I believe this info should already be available, we just didn't save it in 
> the CTS.
> 
> --Pei

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