Glossary

This page gives short description on terms used in TUTOS.

-- A --

Address
A TUTOS address is only the name and the birthday of a person. All information you miss is stored in locations.

Admin
A Administrator is a special TUTOS user that have the right to see modify and delete whatever he want. A Administrator is defined by seklecting the admin permission in the Modifypage of the userentry.

Appointment
Appointments are events scheduled for users or teams.
Appointments have:

  • A start and end time
  • Participants
  • Visitor
  • A related product or project
  • A description
  • Some resources that are neccessary

    -- B --

    Bug
    A bug is the description of something which went wrong or should be improved in a product or installation. Bugs have:

  • A class
  • A status (i.e. solved)
  • A related product.
  • A history of changes.

    -- C --

    Company
    A company is part of an location.

    -- D --

    Department
    A company can have multiple departments.

    Document
    A File that is stored in TUTOS file repository. Documents are related to Projects or Installations. Pictures in the addressbook are also stored as documents.

    -- I --

    Installation
    A product can have multiple installations.
    A installation describes the event of deploying a product at a customer or user. A installation can have bugs.

    Invoice

    -- L --

    Location
    A address can have multiple locations. These are the places where a person lives, works, make holidays ....
    A location has the following attributes:

  • A name for the location like "HOME" or "OFFICE"
  • Postal Address (incl. Company,Department)
  • Telephone Numbers
  • Email

    -- N --

    Note
    A note is a short text you can add to different objects. Notes are displayed by TUTOS whenever you see details of that object.

    -- P --

    Product
    A product is something you and/or your team produces,makes or sells.

  • a name + version
  • a status describing the lifecycle phase of the product
  • a price incl. currency
  • a manager. This is the person responsible for the product.
  • Notes.
  • Urls.
  • Installations.

    Project
    Projects are used like Products.

    -- R --

    Resource
    A resource is something you need to do your job. You can attach resources to appointments.

  • a name + description

    -- T --

    Task
    Tasks are part of a project.
    Tasks have:

  • Scheduled Start and End
  • Real Start and End
  • A work volume
  • A dedicated user or team to do the work.
  • A percentage of completion of the work.

    Team
    A team is a collection of TUTOS users.
    One of the team members is the List Manager who may add or delete team members.

    -- U --

    Url
    That is something you can click on.

    User
    This is a address entry plus some additional info like:

  • password
  • login name
  • preferred language
  • timezone
  • theme