Nomenclature

Objects

• Dashboard: Front-end page
  • Widget: UI element in a dashboard
• Section: Collection of entities
• Entity: Describes a type of record, including its behavior and datatypes (This is a class in OOP)
• Record: Main data holding thing (This is an object in OOP)
  • Revision: How many times a record has been changed
• Status: Configurable state a record is in
  • Level: Assignable number to a status
  • Action: Configurable behavior depending on status
• Field: A single data point of a record
  • Block: Collection of fields for the purpose of access management
  • Validation: A check on whether or not a field has received correct data
  • Dependency: A field's existence can be made dependent on other things
• User group: Determines who has access to which data and features
• Codeunit: Java code for specialized functionality

Parts

• Front-end: The system that the normal user sees
• Back-end: Where the front-end is configured
• Database: It's a database