Glossary

Admin right: permission for an action across the application, such as creating users. Shown under the name the application checks, such as usersCreate.

Asset: a feature whose life is tracked: its condition, its service history and when it is due to be replaced.

Basemap: the map underneath your layers, such as streets or satellite imagery.

Connection: a link between Aptli and an outside system, in either direction.

Draft: a shape drawn on the map that has not yet been saved into a layer.

Feature: one point, line or area on a layer, with its fields.

Guest link: a private web address that lets someone without an account act on one record.

Help request: a question or problem raised on the record it is about, sent to the roles that can answer it.

Inbound source: a feed or database Aptli reads from on a schedule.

Job: a unit of work inside a project, carried out through its work orders.

Layer: a set of features of one kind, points, lines or areas, with its own fields and style.

Lens: a way of recolouring the map to answer one question, without changing any record.

Overlay: anything the map draws beside your own layers: an imported file, a raster image, an outside service or a module's source.

Portal: a public page where residents send requests to your organization.

Project: the top of a tree of work: its jobs, their work orders and the reports on them.

Reference layer: another organization's map service drawn live, with nothing copied.

Report: the record of work done on a work order.

Restriction: a line in a role that blocks actions on the records it matches.

Role: a set of restrictions, and the group of people who hold it.

Rule: something that acts on its own: when an event happens and conditions hold, it does what it says.

Save: records your edit. On some pages the edit stays on the device until you upload it.

Seat: a licensed staff account. Guest links and portal accounts use none.

Site: a place that holds stock, such as a warehouse, a truck or a person's basket.

Submit: sends work and asks for it to be approved.

Tag: a word attached to records. Tags group records and can scope a role's reach.

Upload: sends saved work to everyone.

Validation: a check of a report by someone other than its author.

Version: a set of map changes that stays apart from the records everyone reads until an approver commits it.

Work order: a piece of work assigned to a person, with its location and the materials it needs.