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-===== Niota terms =====
+====== glossary ======
-**advanced filter:**
+**advanced filter:** gives the possibility to define filter conditions on the grid content, in order to display only a desired part of the data set.
-**connection:**
-**catalog object:**
+**callable object:** a process which can be run. It can be a stored procedure, one or more sql statements after each other or a web service call.
-**catalog object instance:**
-**callable object:**
+**catalog object:** a database table represented in Niota meta data.
-**lookup table:**
-**master - detail table:**
+**catalog object instance:** a descendant of the catalog object. You can make more catalog object instance out of one catalog object by using different settings (e.g.: protected columns, displayed columns, displayed rows, etc).
-**transaction:**
-**transaction menu:**
+**connection:** database connection. Points to a [database].[schema] in the case of MSSQL.
+**lookup table:** a previously defined data set, in order to fill a field in the database table. In Niota it has to exist as a catalog object instance.
+**master - detail table:** there can be two, three or four tables on the screen at a time. The top-left is the master/main table. The data shown in the other tables are depend on the selection of the main table.
+**transaction:** it can be a callable object, a table load or an advanced filter event.
+**transaction menu:** it is a custom menu which contains transactions.

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