Tricia Help
Last edited Apr 19

Glossary

Term

Definition

Access right An access right is attached to a content or a container. It defines editors, readers, or administrators which are individual users or groups of users.
Administrators Administrators of a group have the right to change the name of a group and to add, invite, change or exclude members.
Attachment Any file that is attached in wiki page is an attachment.
Blog A blog is a reverse chronological list of blog posts. It can be subscribed to by an RSS feed. It can also have a hierarchy of blog pages that provide background information accessible from every page of the blog. A personal blog is a blog with a single writer. A team blog has more than one writer. A blog can automatically import postings from a list of subscriptions (RSS feeds) defined for this blog.
Blog post A blog post has a title and a rich text content. A blog post can have multiple comments written by readers of the blog.
Blog page A blog page provides background information on the blog. It is not mixed with the chronological list of blog posts.
Breadcrumb navigation The breadcrumb navigation allows a user to identify the logical position of the currently displayed content on the server. It consists of a list of parent content items.
Container A container holds a collection of similar and related content items. Examples for container are wikis, blogs and directories. Access rights defined at the level of containers are inherited by their content items. Individual content items can also override thesse inherited access rights.
Content A content is an individually identifiable piece of digital information managed by Tricia. Examples for content are wiki pages, blog posts, comments,  files or user profiles. A content can be identified by an internal link.
Comment A comment is attached to a content, only visible if show comments is enabled
Dashboard

The personal dashboard of a logged-in user displays the last changes (additions, upates, deletes) to the watched content items of this user. Moreover, the user can display the list of all recent changes and can choose, if and in which format she wishes to receive daily e-mail notifications. It can be displayed after a click on the user's name in the top left corner of the screen.

Desktop access  
Folder A folder is a container for files and folders. Folders can be nested. A folder has a unique name within its parent folder.
Draft  
Editors Editors are a set of users and groups that are permitted to create, edit or delete a particular  content.
Everybody  
External Link An external link is a URL that does not reference a content or a service within a given Tricia site. It typically starts with http://...
File A file has a unique name within its parent directory.
FTP  FTP is an established industry standard protocol to upload and download files between computers of any type (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Unix, Mainframe,Mobile Devices,  ...).  If you want to access Tricia files and directories from other computers and applications, you may use FTP
Group A group is identified by a name and has a set of members. A member is either a user or a group. If an access right is granted to a group, it is valid for all users with a group membership with status active.
Group membership A group membership describes the status of of a person relative to a group (active, applies for, invited) and a public comment that can be used to explain the reason for this membership or the role of the member in the group. A user can be member of arbitrary many groups at once.
Home page Each wiki has a home page. The home page of a wiki is displayed when the URL of the wiki is used without further qualification.
Home space Each Tricia site has a home wiki. The home page of the home wiki is displayed when the URL of the site is used without further qualification.
Hybrid wiki Wiki pages basically consist of a name and some rich-text content. Hybrid wiki allows structuring the ifnormation on a  wiki page means attributes and type tags.
Internal link An internal link is a URL that is local to a Tricia site. It can reference a content, a container or a service. Other links are called  invalid  internal links. Tricia detects and highlights broken internal links.Internal links can be permalinks, i.e. they do not change over time, and they can be assigned in a human-readable way.
Link A link is a URL. It is either an external or an internal link.A
Logged In Users  
Menu item  
Multiplicity  
Name in URL Permalink
Parent Page You can organize wiki pages into a hirarchy of parent and child pages. A parent wiki page ist at the top level of that hirachy. A parent wiki page can have many child wiki pages. 
Child Page You can organize wiki pages into a hirarchy of parent and child pages. You can assign a child wiki page only one parent wiki page.
Plugin  A plugin is an add-on to the core tricia code.
Property Name and (possibly empty) List of Values
Property Definition

Attached to type: Name, (Type) Validator, Multiplicity

Validation errors

Built-in Property  
Readers Readers are a set of users and groups that are permitted to read a content in addition  to editors of the content.
Rich text editor A rich text editor allows to mix text, tables, multimedia elements and links.
Service A service is identified by an internal link.
Site  
Space  
Stored Search  (nicht Embedded Search!)
Style

A style defines the layout and visual elements elements for a set of services. Tricia provides multiple site styles, wiki styles, and blog styles which can also be expanded by authorized users with web design skills.

 

RSS feed  Really Simple Syndication
SMB  Server Message Block, a computer network protocol
SFTP  Secure File transfer Protocol
Tag Tag  is a non-hierarchical keyword assigned to following  contents: wiki page,  blog post and group. It can informally be added to  content by authorized users. Every tag is a web link leading to an index page listing all  contents: wiki pages , blog post, groups  assosicated with this tag.
Tag cloud A tag could is used to viualize used tags in blog.
Template

Displayed as a table flush right on a wiki page. (only if show templates is enabled in wiki)

Possibly empty list of types assigned to this pagel.

Alphabetical list of properties defined for this wiki page

Alphabetical list of (empty) properties suggested for this wiki page based on its types

- property definitions

- properties assigned frequently to other wiki pages with these types 

Theme  A Theme defines the layout and visual elements for a set of services. Tricia provides multiple site styles, wiki styles and blog styles which can also be expand by authorized users with web design skills.
TriciaScript

This is an option that allows power users to embed server-side content into a page. For example, by using the command  $showTags()$ you can display the tags of the current wiki page. (Only if $TriciaScript" is enabled in wiki .) Scripts enclosed in $$ embedded in the rich text are evaluated on the Tricia server to produce dynamic HTML output.

Type Can be assigned to wiki pages. Can have associated property definitions. User can assign a list of attribute names to a type tag. These attribute names are the highlighted to the user whenever the respective type tag is unsed.
Person A user profile stores the display name of a registered user and an e-mail. The e-mail and a secret password are used to login. After login, the user profile grants all access rights as defined by the group memberships associated with this user profile.
Value String or Link
Version Tricia tracks hybrid wikipage changes by maintaining a version history. User can view changes between different versions and to restor previos version if required.
Watched content

A watched content item is a singlecontent item (wiki page, blog page, blog post, file, group) or a space (wiki, blog, directory) for which the user has activated the watch function. The list of all watched content items is displayed on the dashboard of the user.

Space

 Wiki is the container for hybrid wiki pages.

Page contains unstructured date: richt text, image, tables, tags,  attachment and structured date: attributes and type tags.