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title: "Glossary"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.12dsynergy.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Glossary

| **Term** | **Description** |
| --- | --- |
| Job | The highest level 'group' of data in 12d Synergy |
| Folder | A folder that may contain files or other folders |
| Check Out | Take a copy of a file and lock the file for editing |
| Check In | Update the file on the server and release it for other people to edit |
| Get | Download the latest copy of a file |
| Attribute | A piece of meta data that describes an entity in the system in some custom way |
| Note | A piece of information attached to an entity |
| Forum | A collaborative way for users to communicate, broken own into user defined topics and categories |
| Task | An item of work that may be assigned to a user, with an optional start and end date |
| Contact | Information about a particular person or company, such as name, contact details |
| User | A user who can log into the system |
| Association | A helpful way to associate one entity with another, to indicate there is some relationship |