Glossary
In the context of this extension and oCIS in general, we are using the following terminology.
- System configuration
- e.g. service host names and ports
- Changes need to be propagated to other services
- Typically modified on the CLI
- Application level settings
- e.g. default language
- Can be modified at runtime without restarting the service
- User settings
- Subset of “Settings”
- e.g. preferred language of a user
- Collection of related settings
- Registered by an oCIS extension
- Manifestation of a setting for a specific user
- E.g. used for customization (at runtime) in
ocis-web - Can be queried and modified by other oCIS services