# Glossary Plain-language definitions. Cross-referenced to the screens. This glossary covers the terms used across YouDesign Blueprints, what each means, and where you'll see it in the app. {% hint style="info" %} This page defines product-specific terminology. For ServiceNow platform terminology like scopes and ACLs, see ServiceNow Administration. For role names and what each role can do, see Roles and Permissions. {% endhint %} | Term | Plain-language meaning | Where you see it | | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **Access restricted** | A display state used in viewer-restricted sessions where technical identifiers that should not be exposed appear as "Access restricted" instead of raw system values. | Presenter Mode (see [Presenter Mode and Sharing](/blueprints/review-and-share/presenting.md)) | | **Add element** | The action of placing a record from the Data Hub onto the canvas as a blueprint element. | Blueprint Editor (see [Blueprints](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/blueprints.md)) | | **Add Table panel** | The left-side panel in Template Editor where you search for ServiceNow tables and add them to the template canvas. | Template Editor | | **ACL** | An access control list defined at the ServiceNow platform level that determines whether a user can read, create, update, or delete a record. The application respects ACLs throughout its workflows. | ServiceNow Administration, Security and Data Handling | | **Auditor** | A dedicated review workspace where you select elements and check them against the relationship rules defined by a template. | Home, Auditor (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Audit List** | The list of elements you have added to Auditor for review. | Auditor | | **Audit status** | The state of an element being reviewed in Auditor, for example pending, in progress, or reviewed. | Auditor (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Avatar menu** | The menu accessed from your avatar in the main header. Contains Settings, role information, and sign-out. | Home (see [Home and Search](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/home.md)) | | **Blueprint** | A working instance created from a template. It contains selected elements, future-state work, layout, metadata, and compliance context. | Home, Blueprint Editor, Presenter Mode (see [Blueprints](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/blueprints.md)) | | **Blueprint Committer** | A user with the role required to commit approved blueprint changes back to ServiceNow. Sees the editor experience by default. | Roles and Permissions, Blueprint Editor (see [Roles and Permissions](/blueprints/start-here/roles-and-permissions.md)) | | **Blueprint draft** | The unsaved working state of a blueprint before changes are committed back to ServiceNow. | Blueprint Editor (see [Blueprints](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/blueprints.md)) | | **Blueprint Editor** | The screen where you build and maintain a blueprint. | Home, editor route (see [Blueprints](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/blueprints.md)) | | **Blueprint Template Editor** | A user with the role required to configure templates and the rules that future blueprints follow. | Roles and Permissions, Template Editor (see [Roles and Permissions](/blueprints/start-here/roles-and-permissions.md)) | | **Blueprint Viewer** | A read-only user who lands in Presenter Mode by default and cannot edit blueprint or template content. | Roles and Permissions, Presenter Mode (see [Roles and Permissions](/blueprints/start-here/roles-and-permissions.md)) | | **Canvas** | The central visual workspace where table cards, elements, and relationships are shown. | Template Editor, Blueprint Editor, Presenter Mode | | **Cardinality** | In Blueprints, this means the minimum and maximum count for elements or relationships. | Templates, Compliance, Data panel | | **CMDB** | The Configuration Management Database in ServiceNow. Many blueprint elements come from CMDB tables such as `cmdb_ci_business_app`. | Blueprint Editor (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Commit** | The action that publishes approved blueprint changes back to ServiceNow. It is different from normal saving. | Blueprint Editor, Home actions (see [Blueprints](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/blueprints.md)) | | **Commit Summary** | The dialog that lists all unpublished changes to be committed back to ServiceNow, with details about what will be created, updated, or removed. | Blueprint Editor (see [Blueprints](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/blueprints.md)) | | **Compliance** | The measure of whether a blueprint currently satisfies the rules defined by its template. | Home, Blueprint Editor, Compliance Details (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Compliance Details** | The dialog that shows the full compliance breakdown for a blueprint, including which rules pass and which fail. | Blueprint Editor (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Compliance Overview** | A high-level summary of compliance state used to navigate from a blueprint into the detailed compliance dialog. | Blueprint Editor (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Compliance score** | A numeric or visual indicator of how closely a blueprint follows its template. Updated live as you work. | Blueprint Editor, Home (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Current state** | Content that already exists in ServiceNow today. | Blueprint content, planning discussions | | **Data Hub** | The left-side source panel in Blueprint Editor and Auditor where users search and add records from the tables defined by the template. | Blueprint Editor, Auditor (see [Blueprints](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/blueprints.md)) | | **Data panel** | The right-side panel used to review metadata, fields, filters, rules, and relationships. | Template Editor, Blueprint Editor (see [Blueprints](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/blueprints.md)) | | **Edit (action)** | The action that switches from Presenter Mode back into the Blueprint Editor. Available to roles that can edit. | Presenter Mode (see [Presenter Mode and Sharing](/blueprints/review-and-share/presenting.md)) | | **Element** | A single record placed into a blueprint, such as a business process, business application, or another ServiceNow record type. | Blueprint Editor, Presenter Mode, Auditor (see [Elements and](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/elements-and-relationships.md)[ ](#user-content-fn-1)[^1][Relationships](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/elements-and-relationships.md)) | | **Favorite template** | A template marked with a star so it stays easier to find and can appear first in template lists. | Home, template chooser | | **Field issue counts** | A per-element indicator showing how many required fields are missing or invalid. | Blueprint Editor (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Field requirement** | A field marked as required in the template, used to focus editing and compliance on the most important data. | Templates, Blueprint element details | | **Filter** | A template-defined rule that narrows which ServiceNow records appear for a table in the blueprint. | Templates, Data Hub | | **Future state** | Planned content that does not exist in ServiceNow yet but should be represented in the blueprint draft. | Blueprint Editor, compliance review | | **Header compliance score** | The compliance score shown in the Blueprint Editor header. Reflects the current state of the whole blueprint. | Blueprint Editor (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Home** | The app landing page where you search, create, open, manage, and review templates and blueprints. | Default landing page (see [Home and Search](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/home.md)) | | **Live compliance** | The principle that compliance is computed continuously as the blueprint changes, rather than on a saved snapshot. | Blueprint Editor (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Manage Templates** | The administrative view for creating, editing, archiving, and organizing templates. | Home (see [Templates](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/templates.md)) | | **Per-user setting** | A preference stored against a single user. Doesn't affect what other users see. | (see [Settings and Accessibility](/blueprints/personalize/settings.md)) | | **Presenter Mode** | The read-only view of a blueprint used for presentations and stakeholder reviews. | Home action, shared/view-only sessions (see [Presenter Mode and Sharing](/blueprints/review-and-share/presenting.md)) | | **Reduce Motion** | An accessibility setting that minimizes UI animation, including the icon animation used in some buttons. Available in Settings. | Settings and Accessibility, Presenter Mode | | **Related list** | A ServiceNow relationship surface that connects records through list-based context rather than a standard CMDB-style relationship definition. | Templates, relationship suggestions | | **Relationship** | The connection between two elements or two tables in a blueprint. | Canvas, Data panel, Compliance (see [Elements and Relationships](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/elements-and-relationships.md)) | | **Relationship issue counts** | A per-element indicator showing how many required or expected relationships are missing or invalid. | Blueprint Editor (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Relationship type** | The business label for a relationship, such as "is supported by" or "is realized by", together with the rule that controls how it can be used. | Templates, Relationships tab | | **Rule** | A condition defined by the template. Rules can apply to table counts, fields, filters, or relationships. | Templates, Compliance, Auditor | | **Save / Update** | The action that stores current template or blueprint work in the app without running the separate commit workflow. | Template Editor, Blueprint Editor (see [Blueprints](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/blueprints.md)) | | **Scope (ServiceNow)** | The boundary of a ServiceNow application that contains its tables, roles, ACLs, and APIs. YouDesign Blueprints lives in the `x_inpi_ydbp` scope. | (see [ServiceNow Administration](/blueprints/admin-and-governance/servicenow-admin-guide.md)) | | **ServiceNow table** | The source table from which blueprint records are loaded, such as `cmdb_ci_business_app`. | Templates, Data Hub, glossary discussions | | **Single-Character Shortcuts** | A toggle in Settings that enables the canvas zoom shortcuts (`+`, `-`, `0`). Off by default. | Settings and Accessibility, Keyboard Shortcuts (see [Settings and Accessibility](/blueprints/personalize/settings.md)) | | **Snap to grid** | A canvas behavior that aligns table cards to fixed grid positions. Toggleable in Settings. | Blueprint Editor, Template Editor (see [Settings and Accessibility](/blueprints/personalize/settings.md)) | | **Status** | The lifecycle state of a blueprint, such as Draft, Review, Active, Obsolete, or Archived. | Home cards, blueprint details | | **Table card** | The visual card on the canvas that represents one table and contains the elements currently placed there. | Template Editor, Blueprint Editor, Presenter Mode | | **Table-level status** | The overall pass/fail/warning state for a single table inside a blueprint, based on its rules. | Blueprint Editor (see [Compliance and Auditor](/blueprints/review-and-share/compliance.md)) | | **Target date** | An optional date on a blueprint used to communicate a goal, milestone, or planned completion point. | Blueprint details | | **Template** | A reusable definition that tells the app which tables, fields, filters, and relationships a blueprint should use. | Home, Template Editor, blueprint creation (see [Templates](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/templates.md)) | | **Template category** | The grouping label used to organize templates on Home and in the template chooser. | Home, Manage Templates | | **Template Editor** | The screen where a Template Editor configures the structure and rules used by future blueprints. | Home, editor route (see [Templates](/blueprints/work-in-the-app/templates.md)) | | **Theme** | The light or dark color scheme used by the application. Set per user. | (see [Settings and Accessibility](/blueprints/personalize/settings.md)) | | **Tutorial** | An in-app overlay that walks new users through the main flows. Can be re-enabled in Settings via the tutorial preference. | Settings and Accessibility, Keyboard Shortcuts (see [Settings and Accessibility](/blueprints/personalize/settings.md)) | | **Unpublished changes** | Changes that exist in the blueprint draft but have not yet been committed back to ServiceNow. | Home cards, Blueprint Editor, Commit Summary | [^1]: --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.ins-pi.com/blueprints/reference/glossary.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. 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