Glossary

The words this guide uses, each with where it is explained. The Concepts chapter tells how the most important ones fit together.

Term	Meaning
Abort	Stopping a run, or a trigger run, for good. See Abort.
Activity	One step of work in a process, from an integration module, run by an agent. See Activities and connections.
Agent	A computer that runs activities. See Agents, agent-pools and demands.
Agent-pool	A group of agents that work as one, and share their capabilities. See Agent-pools.
Array	A variable that holds a list of values. See Lists.
Capability	Something an agent has, such as a browser. See Capabilities.
Cancel node	Stopping a node that runs, or a failed round of a loop, so the run can go on. See Cancel node.
Check	The designer's check of a process, which lists its errors and warnings. See The check and Validation rules.
Collection	A list of items by key, kept by the organization for its processes. See Collections.
Connection	The settings for reaching another system, per environment. See Connections.
Counter	A number that goes up by one each time a process asks. See Counters.
Demand	Something an activity needs an agent to have. See Demands.
Diagnostics	Settings that make activities take screenshots for a while, to see what went wrong. See Diagnostics and screenshots.
Draft	The changeable copy of a definition, before it is published. See Draft.
Environment	A stage, such as Test or Production, with its own runs and data. See Environment.
Expression	A formula that works out a value during a run, such as concat("Hello, ", {Name}). See Expressions and Expression functions.
Form	A form people fill in during a run (a user task) or to start one (a form trigger). See Forms and user tasks.
Gateway	A node that chooses or splits the path a run takes. See Gateways and conditions.
Input	A value an activity needs. See Inputs.
Integration module	A package of activities, triggers, types and kinds of connection. See Integration module.
Issue	A problem Spider reports to the support desk, such as a failed run or an agent in maintenance. See Issues.
Link	The arrow from one node to the next. See Links.
Log	What a node of a run wrote while it ran. See Logs.
Loop	A node repeated for each item of a list. See Loops.
Maintenance	The state of an agent that takes no new work until someone takes it out. See Maintenance.
Milestone	A point a run reaches, shown with an icon on its page and in the run lists. See Milestones.
Node	One element of a process's diagram: an event, a gateway, an activity, a sub-process. See The nodes.
Output	A value an activity gives back, stored in a variable. See Outputs.
Package	The file a process definition is exported as, with a description of what it uses. See Export and import.
Parameter	A variable whose value is given when a run starts. See Parameters.
Process definition	A process as designed, with its versions and its draft. See Process definition.
Process run	One time a process ran. See Process run.
Production	The environment that does the real work. See Environments.
Publish	Turning the draft into a new version. See Version and publishing.
Report	An entry a run adds when something happened, with tags, for reporting. See Reports.
Retry	Running the failed nodes of a run again. See Retry.
Retry from here	Running a run again from an earlier node. See Retry from here.
Robot account	The Windows account an agent works under, to drive applications on a desktop. See Robot accounts.
Scheduled run	A run that waits for the time it was given to start. See Scheduled runs.
Screenshot	A picture of the agent's screen, taken by an activity and shown in the run's log. See Diagnostics and screenshots.
Status	Where a run, a node, a trigger run or an agent stands. See Statuses.
Sub-process	A process inside a process, with its own diagram. See Sub-processes and loops.
Template	A text, such as an e-mail's body, with places where a run fills in its values. See Templates and e-mail.
Trigger	What starts runs by itself. See Triggers.
Trigger run	One time a trigger fired. See Trigger run.
Type	The kind of value a variable holds. See Types.
User task	A step of a run that waits for someone to fill in a form. See User tasks.
Variable	A named value a run works with. See Variables and parameters.
Version	A published state of a definition, such as 1.0. See Version and publishing.