Core Principles

Information Flow

Terms - 101

These are the most important terms that are useful when working with Portrait:

Term

Description

Connection

A connection to an external source

Source

Definition of source data that will be imported into the index

Section

Definition of the presentation of source data on the UI

Entry

A single entry that is shown inside a section

Index

Internal data storage

Field

Single element/metadata of an entry

Form

A form is an interactive configurable dialog.

Field Processor

Script processor that manipulates or creates data whilst sourcing