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.

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.

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)
Add element	The action of placing a record from the Data Hub onto the canvas as a blueprint element.	Blueprint Editor (see Blueprints)
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)
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)
Avatar menu	The menu accessed from your avatar in the main header. Contains Settings, role information, and sign-out.	Home (see Home and Search)
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)
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)
Blueprint draft	The unsaved working state of a blueprint before changes are committed back to ServiceNow.	Blueprint Editor (see Blueprints)
Blueprint Editor	The screen where you build and maintain a blueprint.	Home, editor route (see Blueprints)
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)
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)
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)
Commit	The action that publishes approved blueprint changes back to ServiceNow. It is different from normal saving.	Blueprint Editor, Home actions (see Blueprints)
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)
Compliance	The measure of whether a blueprint currently satisfies the rules defined by its template.	Home, Blueprint Editor, Compliance Details (see Compliance and Auditor)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Data panel	The right-side panel used to review metadata, fields, filters, rules, and relationships.	Template Editor, Blueprint Editor (see Blueprints)
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)
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 Relationships)
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)
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)
Home	The app landing page where you search, create, open, manage, and review templates and blueprints.	Default landing page (see Home and Search)
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)
Manage Templates	The administrative view for creating, editing, archiving, and organizing templates.	Home (see Templates)
Per-user setting	A preference stored against a single user. Doesn't affect what other users see.	(see Settings and Accessibility)
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)
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)
Relationship issue counts	A per-element indicator showing how many required or expected relationships are missing or invalid.	Blueprint Editor (see Compliance and Auditor)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Theme	The light or dark color scheme used by the application. Set per user.	(see Settings and Accessibility)
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)
Unpublished changes	Changes that exist in the blueprint draft but have not yet been committed back to ServiceNow.	Home cards, Blueprint Editor, Commit Summary