Glossary

Application terminology | User account terminology

Application terminology

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Application: An application is a third party application that access the AskiaPortal API(s) for it's own usage.
See Also: AskiaPortal, AskiaPortalCmn
AskiaPortal: AskiaPortal is the on-line Askia platform used to integrate different modules around a unified set of user interfaces, APIs, databases etc..
See Also: AskiaPortalCmn, Module
AskiaPortalCmn: AskiaPortal Common API (AskiaPortalCmn.dll) is a .Net library providing an access to the AskiaPortal database and managing AskiaPortal cross-modules interactions.
See Also: AskiaPortal, Module

M

Module: A module of AskiaPortal is an application that uses the AskiaPortal database (through the AskiaPortalCmn API) and that contributes somehow to extends AskiaPortal features.
See Also: AskiaPortal, AskiaPortalCmn

S

Server: A server in AskiaPortal is an application that run in a server-side (not the physical machine).

User account terminology

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Administrator: The term administrator is used to define a user account that have at least one administrative privilege.
See Also: User, Non-administrator, Group-administrator, Super-administrator

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Group-administrator: The term group-administrator is used to define a user account that dedicated to manage one or several group(s) of users, but that are not super-administrator.
See Also: User, Non-administrator, Administrator, Super-administrator

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Non-administrator, Regular user: The terms non-administrator, regular-user are used to define a user account that doesn't have administrative privilege.
See Also: User, Administrator, Group-administrator, Super-administrator

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Super-administrator: The term super-administrator is used to define a user account that have full permission on the platform.
See Also: User, Non-administrator, Administrator, Group-administrator

U

User

The term user is used to define a user account. It's concretely a record in the Users table of the AskiaPortal database.

This term is use in global sense of the term, it doesn't reduce or discriminate the role of the user ( non-administrator/regular user, administrator, group-administrator, super-administration)