Guide
When talking about Fibery (with colleagues, with other Fibery users, or with customer support) it's helpful to have a shared language. The following is a dictionary of terms that you might find useful.
A set of capabilities which can be granted to a user. See Share Entity and Share Database.
Something that an automation (rule or button) will do when it executes. See Automation Rules and Buttons.
A user who is able to log in to a workspace. See User Management.
Can mean
the record of all activity in a workspace (see Activity Log)
the record of activity specific to an entity (see Single Entity Activity Log)
the history of a document or rich text (see Text history)
the records of button presses or executions of an automation rule
Lines or areas on a chart to provide context for the data. See Chart.
Application programming interface - a mechanism for interacting with the data in the workspace via software. See Fibery API overview.
A deprecated term for a space.
A relationship where entities are linked together based on them having the same values for specific fields. See Auto-linking (Set Relations Automatically).
A set of actions that will be executed when a trigger occurs or when a button is pressed. See Automations.
Visualisation (and links to) the places where an entity has been mentioned. See Entity mentions and bi-directional links.
A type of view. See Board View.
A user-interface element (which can be shown in entity view and/or in other views) which can be pressed. Alternatively, the name of the automation that will execute when a button is pressed. See Buttons.
A type of view. See Calendar View.
An ability to see or do something in the workspace, e.g. view, comment, update, delete, share, etc.
Users will have capabilities depending on how things have been shared with them. See access templates and Sharing & Permissions.
The nature of a structured relation, determining the number of entities that may be linked. Can be one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one or many-to-many. See Relations.
A type of report. See Chart.
The set of entities linked via a one-to-many or many-to-many relation. See Relations.
a part of entity view layout (see Entity View)
a layout option within documents or rich text (see Multi-columns layout)
a field being visualised in a table view
a contextual remark associated with a piece of rich text a.k.a. inline comment (see Comments and mentions)
a remark associated with an entity, logged in the comments field (see Comments and mentions)
a remark added to a whiteboard (see Comments on Whiteboard)
Limitation (filtering) of data based on the (direct or indirect) relation to another entity. See Context Views.
a user-defined access template defining capabilities across a hierarchy of related databases (entity access template). See Custom Access Templates for Sharing Entities
a user-defined access template defining capabilities for one or more databases.Share Database.
A sidebar item used for the presentation of multiple embedded views. It can be a context view (meaning that the embedded views are default-filtered to the context of a specific entity). See Dashboard View.
A collection of entities which share the same characteristics (a.k.a. fields). See Databases.
The top-level of the sidebar - a (non-visible) container for views, folders, smart folders, documents, whiteboards and other spaces.
A rich text object. See Documents.
A view within rich text. It can be an existing space-level view (from the sidebar) or a new view, that thus 'belongs' to the document/entity.
A single object, sharing the same characteristics as other objects in a database. See Entity.
A way to see some or all of the characteristic values (fields) of an entity. See Entity View.
A type of view. See Feed View.
A (basic or complex) characteristic of all entities in a given database. See Fields.
criteria by which the entities to be shown in a view can be limited (see Filters)
criteria which determine whether an automation rule should execute (see Automation Rules)
criteria which determine what source data to include in a report (see Reports) as well as which data points should be visualised (see Report filters)
criteria by which the items to be shown in the trash or workspace activity log can be limited.
A sidebar element for grouping of spaces, views, documents, whiteboards, folders and smart folders. See Sidebar.
A type of view used for creating new entities. See Forms.
a characteristic of an entity (i.e. a field) which is calculated from other field values (see Formulas)
a calculation used in an automation action (see Automation Rules and Add Formula to Automation Button)
a calculation used in a report (see Calculations in Reports)
A connection between a fragment of rich text and an entity, where the connection itself has characteristics (fields). See Highlights.
A report which visualises information related to the history of entities. See Current vs Historical data in Reports.
the changes that an entity undergoes (see Single Entity Activity Log)
the changes that a document or rich text field undergoes (see Text history)
A section of the workspace where notifications are presented and stored. See Inbox and notifications.
A way of providing (read-only) access to data from an external source. See Import and integration overview.
A way of presenting information in an entity view, with either 1 or 2 columns. See Multiple Entity Views.
A type of view. See List View.
A field which surfaces field values of a related entity. See Lookups.
A type of view. See Map View.
A clickable link in rich text (pointing to an entity, view, document or whiteboard) which is dynamic, displaying the name (and potentially other field values) of the linked-to item. See Comments and mentions.
A type of report. See Metric (KPI).
The act of replicating a context view to all entities of the same type within a smart folder. See Context Views.
A required characteristic (field) of every entity.
An alert sent to a particular user regarding some event in the workspace. See Inbox and notifications.
A part of the user interface, for displaying information. See Panels.
A type of report. See Pie chart.
A set of fields at the top of the left column in a 2-column layout of entity view. See Entity View.
Alternative name for a mention.
a connection, defined (with a specific cardinality) between one database and another (or itself). It will present as a pair of fields, representing either end of the connection.
an instantiation of the above, i.e. a link between one entity and another
See Relations.
An context view that is part of an entity view, and which displays, for each collection, the related entities. See Relation Views.
A type of view which allows visualisation of aggregated entity data. See Reports.
An area for collaborative text editing. See Rich Text.
An overarching level of access for each user in the workspace. See User Management.
A type of automation that will execute when an event trigger occurs, provided the filter criteria are met. See Automation Rules.
The complete description of the relations and fields of the databases in the workspace.
A piece of code that executes as an automation action. See Scripts in Automations.
A type of field representing single or multiple options. Select fields are effectively 'mini' databases. See Single and Multi-Select fields.
The configuration options for a workspace. See Workspace settings.
The configuration of access for users. See Sharing & Permissions.
The left part of the user interface (if not hidden) allowing navigation within the workspace. See Sidebar.
A sidebar element showing a nested list of entities, under each of which can be created context views. See Smart Folders.
A (read-only) representation of the contents of a rich text field, limited in number of characters and only showing simple text. It is generated after a slight delay following changes made to the rich text field, and used in various views.
A container for databases, integrations, views, documents, whiteboards, folders and smart folders, found in the sidebar. See Spaces.
a type of view (see Table View)
a type of report (see Table)
a grid within a document / rich text (see Rich Text)
A hierarchical list of the headings within a document / rich text. See Table of contents.
a pre-defined space which can be imported and thus reproduced in another workspace (see Templates)
a pre-defined set of connected spaces which can be reproduced (see Share Workspace as a Template)
a type of view (see Thread View (experimental, emulates Slack channels))
a comment with one or more replies
A type of view. See Timeline View.
A list of deleted items (entities, views, fields, databases, spaces) which may be restored. See Trash.
An event which can cause an automation rule to be executed (subject to filters). See Automation Rules.
A category of entities having common characteristics, i.e. the set of fields of database. Also, a deprecated name for a database.
See watch.
A person who has been granted access to a workspace or parts of it. See User Management.
entity view
a visualisation of entities in aggregate, e.g. board, list, table a.k.a. 'data view'
a sidebar item such as a document, whiteboard or dashboard, a.k.a. 'content view'
a form
See Views.
Enabling/disabling notifications about changes to a specific entity.
A canvas for drawing / diagramming. See Whiteboards.
A collection of spaces, users and the settings related to them.
A visualisation of spaces, databases and the relations between them. See Sidebar.