Ranes glossary

Plain-language definitions for words used across Ranes.

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These terms apply across Ranes. Feature-specific terms are in the Forms glossary and the Planners glossary.

Term	Meaning
Job	A place or piece of work, such as a site, project, contract, building or client. Jobs are the main way Ranes organizes records. Your organization may use a different word.
Child job	A job inside another job, for an area, phase or building. Labels on the parent apply to its child jobs.
Group	A saved set of people, such as a team, crew, shift, department or trade.
Subgroup	A group inside another group. Work assigned to the parent group also reaches subgroup members.
Role	What someone can do in Ranes: Global Admin, User Admin, Billing Admin or User app only.
Label	A colored tag for sorting jobs and Log-Its. Documents have their own labels.
Time category	The kind of activity time is recorded against, such as travel, setup or maintenance.
Cost code	A billing or costing code. Each job has its own list.
Library	The reusable things you build: forms, planners, documents and training courses.
Workspace	The Portal's view of work, organized by job.
Assignment	A request for people to complete a form or planner, once or on a schedule.
Work item	One piece of work someone owes, from any feature. Work items fill My Work and the Work board.
My Work	The app's home screen. It lists everything you need to do.
Anytime work	Work with no due date that's done whenever it's needed.
Submission	A completed form, or a completed run of a planner.
Log-It	A photo-based record of something seen, found or done.
Time entry	One period from tap in to tap out. Also called a shift.
Tap In check	A form that must be completed before someone can tap in.
Fit for duty	A confirmation, when tapping in, that you're able to do your work.
Course	A training course, either on-demand or a scheduled webinar.
Enrollment	A person's place on a course, with their progress and result.
Credit topic	A subject that courses award credit in.
Folder	A container for documents with its own access rules.