A quick-reference guide to terms you'll see throughout the platform.
- Architect Panel
- The master configuration hub. Reached from the admin panel sidebar. Lists every feature of ActiveManage organised by category.
- Browse View
- A configurable listing of datastore rows for end users. Defines which columns appear, what filters are available, and which row actions are exposed.
- Cart
- An eCommerce shopping cart. Cart configurations support products, discount codes, multiple payment methods, and vendor applications.
- Custom Field
- A field added to a datastore beyond the platform-shipped defaults. Configured under the Custom Fields admin section.
- Datastore
- ActiveManage's name for a database table. Holds rows of application data; every datastore has fields, permissions, and behaviour configuration.
- Field Type
- The kind of data a field stores and how it's rendered — Text Box, Number, Date, Dropdown, File Upload, and around 50 others.
- Mini-form
- A platform-shipped fragment of conditional form logic that turns up wherever certain options need follow-on fields. For example, picking "By Field" for Option Sorting reveals a Sort Field Name input — that revelation is driven by a mini-form.
- Permission
- A grant of access — read, write, edit, delete — on a datastore, field, or row. Permissions are assigned to security groups.
- reCAPTCHA
- Google's anti-bot challenge. Configurable per-form (v2 Checkbox, v2 Invisible, v3). Requires site/secret keys in Site Settings.
- Security Group
- A named collection of users that can be granted permissions as a unit. Users can belong to multiple security groups.
- Stage
- One checkpoint in a User Input View's workflow. Each stage has an assignee, visible fields, allowed actions, and optional timeout/reminder settings.
- Subscription Package
- A recurring product offering. Subscription packages can be linked to feature sets so subscribers automatically gain (or lose) access to specific features.
- Task Engine
- The scheduled-jobs runner. Tasks run on a configured cadence (cron-style) and write to the Task Log.
- Tenant
- A logical customer of a multi-tenant ActiveManage install. Tenants have isolated data; whether that isolation is row-level or database-level is set in Site Settings.
- User Input View (UIV)
- A multi-stage form. Users submit; the resulting record then moves through stages with approval, decline, request-more-info actions, and per-stage email notifications.