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Glossary

This topic provides you with terminology and concepts about d.3one.

Terminology

Concept

Dossier

An entity consisting of items and properties describing the items. Items of a dossier can be documents and/or dossiers.

Dossier type

Describes the type of a dossier (e.g. customer dossier, supplier dossier) and thus defines the properties that are available.

Common properties

Properties owned by a document or dossier despite of the document type or dossier type.

App

d.3one integration in a leading application that provides dedicated functions and user interface, if applicable.

Tasks and Messages

Refers to the location at which messages and tasks initially arrive and remain until the user works on them.

Base address

The definable part of an URL under which any services of a system can be accessed and which serves as a reference point.

d.3 link

Reference to repository items.

d.3one application server

Collection of all apps, which can be expanded by third-party apps, if applicable. Abbreviated: d.3one server.

d.ecs domino

A service that is installed on the IBM Domino server. This service provides the access to the IBM resources and communicates with the d.3one server.

Document

An entity consisting of a file and the properties describing the file. Files can be, for example, images, digital writings, Excel files, etc.

Document type

Describes the type of a document (e.g. invoice, delivery note) and thus defines the available properties (e.g. invoice number, delivery note number).

Drop zone

A user interface section used to drop an item in order to store it.

Property

A trait that describes a document or dossier in condensed manner.

Results

Set of documents and dossiers found by a search.

Advanced properties

Customized additional property (optional) that describe a document or dossier.

Facet

Results can be viewed with regard to a specific property by using a facet.

Feature

A set of related functions in an integration. A feature has got a dedicated name.

Business process

A Business process consists of a collection of logically related actions (tasks, activities) that are performed in order to achieve a business or operational target. (see Wikipedia in German)

Main dossier

Dossier on top-level of a dossier structure. The main dossier is a logical parenthesis and is used to digitally combine additional items, such as dossiers and documents. Thus, a document can be part of several different top-level dossiers.

Integration:

A set of front-end functionality (features) that may be integrated in a leading application.

Category

Covers the items "dossier type" and "document type".

Context action

An action that provides a context-specific function related to a selected item.

Multi-value property

Special property to describe a document or a dossier. The multi-value property can consist of several values.

Source

Refers to an item in a source system with specific properties and categories, such as e-mail, e-mail attachments, contacts, and appointments.

Source property

Defines the item's property of any source system, for example, the source "e-mail" has the properties "Subject", "Sender", "Recipient" and "Body".

Source category

Defines the item's category of any source system, for example, the source "e-mail" has the categories "supplier invoice" and "customer invoice".

Source system

Refers to any systems providing source data (such as an e-mail application or ERP system) which can be used, for example, to map data in various systems.

Repository

Refers to a logical storage location, that is, a collection of documents and dossiers. These collections may also be used to separate information for security reasons, for example. A d.3 system can provide several repositories.

Workflow

Business process implemented by a rule-based, defined sequence of handling steps.