DNAOS/Glossary/C

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CALENDAR
a two level Schedule.

CAPABILITY
(Schedulable) resource attribute describing the resource's utility, or usefulness, or constraints in affecting other Resources.

CART
a traditional, persisted, on-line, user virtual shopping cart.

CATALOG
each DNAOS web document and every partner organization can have a catalog with products, services, bundles, subscriptions, specials, and discounts. For example, a partner can typically have a main catalog and 3 web sites (documents), each of which has its own catalog as a different subset of the main catalog, possibly also with additional exclusive entries. Shopping carts and Orders or order forms can all use catalogs for selection. DNAOS web sites/documents also have a Jukebox has an additional catalog for delivering multimedia content. DNAOS catalogs and their contents are DNAOS schedule resources.

CELL
a form organization and formatting structure resource, corresponding to a table cell in a form layout. Cells can be of arbitrary complexity, arranged horizontally or vertically, and associated with queries for initialization.

COLLABORATION
a process allowing different parties to work together, collaborate, and share resources and processes to achieve a common goal.

COLLABORATIVE
is in support of collaboration, or collaboration friendly.

COLLECTION
is the first level DNAOS document organization data structure. Collections are nested or hierarchical resources and typed libraries of documents for DNAOS to load and/or publish, ex: 'content' collections contain documents and 'http' collections inside 'content' collections contain and define DNAOS published, managed, operated, and maintained web documents, including portal, sites, sub-sites, and engines.

COLUMN
a report organization and formatting structure resource, corresponding to a report column. Preset columns can be used by multiple reports.

COMPANY
a hierarchical DNAOS party archetype resource used to define, represent, and identify Organizations.

COMPONENTS
in a DNAOS context, this usually general and useful term is often used more specifically to designate GUI component resources, including: panels, rows, cells, queries.

CONTENT
includes specifically document contents and more generally all data, resources, profiles, and documents processed by Applications.

CONTEXT
typically the current and future DNAOS IT business, technology, market, financial, and security context and environment. More information is also available in the DNAOS Context section.

CONTROL
control applications provide remote control and management of electrical and electronic equipment; some examples are provided in the DNAOS Applications section; as an additional issue, control applications are typically coupled to monitoring applications so that equipment can be monitored and controlled, doubling the required number of acquisition/control channels and data streams. Yet other issues combine and force a further consideration: distribution and security, as in web-based distributed data/content security.

CONSULTING
is a DNAOS project type for managing and accounting time based work, including timesheets, invoicing, tracking, reporting.

CRUNCH
specialized intensive data processing and computation tasks, as per application field.

CSS
cascading style sheets, a mostly web-based look&feel standard.