- Action — A reusable HTTP request or SQL stored procedure that jobs run.
- Activity — A group of items inside a job phase, run in parallel by
default.
- Agent key — A scoped API key issued to an on-prem Gateway.
- BI Endpoints — Datawareness's Business Central app that publishes a
catalogue of entity sets.
- Business key — The field(s) that identify a record,
&& between
parts.
- Business Plus — The feature set holding the Data API and Data access.
- Configuration package — A JSON file of configuration, moved between
environments or installs.
- Custom endpoint — A Business Central table exposed through BI
Endpoints with columns of your choice.
- Data access role — Who may read which datasets and instances through
the Data API.
- Data API — The read-only API for loaded data.
- Data catalogue — Per source system, what can still become a dataset.
- Data reference — A variable whose values come from a loaded dataset.
- Dataset — A target table fed from endpoints, a Gateway table, a webhook
or a parent dataset.
- Endpoint — One request a dataset makes.
- Environment — A complete, separate copy of configuration and data.
- Environment key — The API key that names an environment on trigger and
webhook calls.
- Export system — A destination warehouse or lakehouse.
- Full load / incremental load — A read of everything, with rows not
seen marked deleted afterwards, versus a read of changes since the last
load.
- Gateway — The on-premises worker that pushes SQL Server and ODBC data
to Cloud Connector.
- Global variable — A variable shared by every environment,
{{g:name}}.
- Instance — One connection to a source system.
- Integer loop — A counter variable for page-numbered APIs.
- Item — An action, stored procedure or dataset refresh inside an
activity.
- Job — A pipeline of three phases: before, refresh, after.
- Job variable — A run-scoped value shared by a job's actions,
{{j:name}}.
- Load log — The record of one dataset load.
- Nested dataset — A dataset made from a nested field of another
dataset's rows.
- Phase — Before refresh data, Refresh Source Data, After refresh data.
- Progressive load — Rows written to SQL while the load fetches them.
- Run — One execution of a job or schedule.
- Schedule — Cron expressions that run jobs.
- Schema — The namespace a source system's data lands in.
- Single-instance source system — A source system with exactly one
instance and bare record ids.
- Source system — A logical data source with instances, endpoints and
datasets.
- Subscription — An outbound webhook on job or schedule events.
- Template — A package published in the Templates gallery.
- Unpack — The path to the records in a response.
- Variable — A value referenced as
{{name}}.
- Watermark — The column or timestamp an incremental load resumes from.
- Webhook (inbound) — A URL an external system POSTs rows to.