# Docs, Wikis and Files Glossary

> 36 terms from the Workplace & Collaboration book's Docs, Wikis and Files part, each defined in a line and linked to the chapter that explains it.

- **Advanced electronic signature (AdES):** An eIDAS signature uniquely linked to and capable of identifying the signatory, under the signatory's control, that makes later changes detectable ([E-Signatures & Agreements](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/e-signatures-and-agreements#eidas-three-levels-and-qualified-providers)).
- **Atlassian Document Format (ADF):** The JSON document schema behind Confluence and Jira content, with a `doc` root, block and inline nodes, marks and attrs ([Docs & Wikis](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/docs-and-wikis#structured-documents-confluence-google-docs-and-loop)).
- **Audience targeting:** Showing intranet content only to members of chosen groups, a placement filter that is not a permission ([Intranets & Knowledge Bases](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/intranets-and-knowledge#targeting-is-not-permission)).
- **Awareness (presence):** Ephemeral co-editing state such as cursors and selections, kept outside the document and expired by silence ([Real-Time Co-Editing](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/real-time-collaboration#presence-and-cursors)).
- **Block (docs):** A unit of content with an ID, a type, properties, an ordered list of children and a parent pointer, from which a page is built ([Docs & Wikis](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/docs-and-wikis#blocks-notion-s-model)).
- **Blocklist:** The ordered list of content hashes of a file's fixed-size blocks, which identifies a file version in block-level sync ([Files, Sync & Storage](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/files-and-sync#block-level-sync)).
- **Certificate of completion:** The provider-generated record of an e-signature envelope's history, stored with the signed documents as evidence ([E-Signatures & Agreements](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/e-signatures-and-agreements#the-certificate-of-completion)).
- **Conflicted copy:** A sibling file a sync service creates when two edits to the same file can't be reconciled, so neither write is lost ([Files, Sync & Storage](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/files-and-sync#conflicts)).
- **Connector data policy:** A tenant rule grouping low-code connectors as Business, Non-Business or Blocked so data can't flow between groups in one app or flow ([No-Code Databases & Internal Tools](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/no-code-databases-and-internal-tools#governance-and-shadow-apps)).
- **Contract lifecycle management (CLM):** Software covering an agreement from request and drafting through negotiation, signature, obligations and renewal ([E-Signatures & Agreements](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/e-signatures-and-agreements#contract-lifecycle-management)).
- **CRDT:** A conflict-free replicated data type, whose concurrent operations commute so replicas converge without a central order ([Real-Time Co-Editing](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/real-time-collaboration#crdts)).
- **Delegation (low-code):** Translating an app's query into a query the data source runs, instead of fetching a capped number of rows and filtering locally ([No-Code Databases & Internal Tools](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/no-code-databases-and-internal-tools#formulas-and-computed-fields)).
- **Envelope:** An e-signature package of documents, ordered recipients and fields, with a status from created through completed, declined or voided ([E-Signatures & Agreements](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/e-signatures-and-agreements#the-envelope)).
- **Fractional indexing:** Ordering siblings by position strings that always leave room between neighbors, so inserts and moves never renumber ([Real-Time Co-Editing](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/real-time-collaboration#server-authority-figma-s-approach)).
- **Home site:** The SharePoint site set as an organization's intranet landing page and the basis of the SharePoint app in Teams ([Intranets & Knowledge Bases](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/intranets-and-knowledge#the-suite-intranet-sharepoint)).
- **Hub site:** A SharePoint site that groups related sites with shared navigation, recommended over nested subsites ([Intranets & Knowledge Bases](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/intranets-and-knowledge#the-suite-intranet-sharepoint)).
- **Live doc:** A Confluence content type that saves every change for all viewers in real time with no publish step ([Docs & Wikis](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/docs-and-wikis#structured-documents-confluence-google-docs-and-loop)).
- **Local undo:** Multiplayer undo that reverts only the current user's changes, merged against everything since ([Real-Time Co-Editing](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/real-time-collaboration#undo-in-multiplayer)).
- **Local-first software:** Software that keeps the primary copy of data on the user's device and syncs it, usually with CRDTs ([Real-Time Co-Editing](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/real-time-collaboration#crdts)).
- **Loop component:** A live Microsoft 365 content fragment backed by a `.loop` file whose storage location depends on where it was created ([Docs & Wikis](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/docs-and-wikis#structured-documents-confluence-google-docs-and-loop)).
- **Managed Environment:** A Power Platform environment with premium governance features such as sharing limits, usage insights and environment data policies ([No-Code Databases & Internal Tools](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/no-code-databases-and-internal-tools#governance-and-shadow-apps)).
- **Operational transformation (OT):** Adjusting each concurrent edit operation against the ones it crossed so all editors converge, usually through a central server ([Real-Time Co-Editing](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/real-time-collaboration#operational-transformation)).
- **Page owner:** The person responsible for a page, separate from its creator and transferable, reassigned when the owner leaves ([Docs & Wikis](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/docs-and-wikis#staleness-and-ownership)).
- **Page restriction:** A per-page limit on viewing or editing that can only narrow the container's access; view restrictions inherit down the tree ([Docs & Wikis](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/docs-and-wikis#containers-trees-and-restrictions)).
- **Pooled storage:** Storage sold per seat but consumed as one organization-wide allowance ([Files, Sync & Storage](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/files-and-sync#quotas-and-pooled-storage)).
- **Publish to the web:** Making a document or site readable outside the organization, ideally behind an admin switch ([Docs & Wikis](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/docs-and-wikis#publishing-to-the-web)).
- **Qualified electronic signature (QES):** An eIDAS advanced signature made on a qualified signature creation device with a qualified certificate, equivalent to a handwritten signature across the EU ([E-Signatures & Agreements](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/e-signatures-and-agreements#eidas-three-levels-and-qualified-providers)).
- **Qualified trust service provider (QTSP):** A provider audited and granted qualified status by a national authority, listed on an EU trusted list ([E-Signatures & Agreements](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/e-signatures-and-agreements#eidas-three-levels-and-qualified-providers)).
- **Remote online notarization (RON):** Notarization of an electronic document by a commissioned notary for a signer on a recorded video call ([E-Signatures & Agreements](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/e-signatures-and-agreements#remote-online-notarization)).
- **Rewind (point-in-time restore):** Undoing all file changes in an account or folder back to a chosen moment, the main ransomware recovery tool ([Files, Sync & Storage](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/files-and-sync#versions-deletes-and-ransomware)).
- **Shadow app:** A business application built by employees in a no-code or low-code tool without IT's involvement or visibility ([No-Code Databases & Internal Tools](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/no-code-databases-and-internal-tools#governance-and-shadow-apps)).
- **Shared drive:** A file container owned by a team or the organization rather than a member, so files outlive any one account ([Files, Sync & Storage](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/files-and-sync#shared-drives-and-who-owns-the-file)).
- **Signing group:** A shared e-signature recipient, any one member of which may sign for the organization ([E-Signatures & Agreements](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/e-signatures-and-agreements#the-sender-s-account)).
- **Synced tree:** A sync engine's record of the last state known to match on both client and server, used as a merge base ([Files, Sync & Storage](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/files-and-sync#the-sync-engine)).
- **Verification (knowledge):** A named verifier's confirmation that content is current, which expires after an interval and demotes the content ([Intranets & Knowledge Bases](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/intranets-and-knowledge#verification-and-expiry)).
- **Version trimming:** Deleting file versions beyond a library's count or age limit, which retention policies and holds override ([Files, Sync & Storage](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/workplace-and-collaboration/files-and-sync#versions-deletes-and-ransomware)).

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