Glossary
Admission
The boundary at which Jiandu validates an intake and durably records enough state to preserve or resume it. Admission does not mean all processing has finished.
Artifact
A derived file or representation associated with a document. An artifact is not a substitute for the original.
Blob
The stored bytes for an original or durable artifact. Jiandu can keep blobs on local disk, S3-compatible storage, or WebDAV.
Capture connector
An explicitly configured source such as a watched folder, network scanner, outbound capture agent, or email connector.
Document record
The durable identity, filing metadata, lifecycle state, and access information associated with an original.
Household library
The shared-by-default collection visible to ordinary Jiandu members, except where a document has explicit restrictions.
Owner
The installation's break-glass recovery authority. Its token is separate from normal human accounts: protect the live file Jiandu requires, retain a failure-independent offline copy, and do not use it for daily work.
Administrator
A human account allowed to operate the installation. Administrator status does not implicitly reveal every restricted document.
Member
The normal human role for adding, finding, correcting, and using documents.
Original
The admitted source bytes. Filing changes and rebuilt indexes should not rewrite the original.
Personal access token (PAT)
A scoped, expiring credential for automation. It is not a browser password or Owner recovery token.
Processing run
A versioned, bounded attempt to derive searchable or display information from an original. New runs use the effective settings captured when they are created.
Public origin
The exact external https:// origin users open through the trusted reverse proxy. Jiandu uses it when validating the browser boundary.
Readiness
Whether the process can currently serve its required dependencies. Readiness does not prove that backup, restore, sign-in, or document workflows have been tested.
Restriction
An explicit access list for an exceptional document. Grants can give named people or groups Viewer, Editor, or Manager capability.
Secret reference
A protected file path used in configuration instead of embedding a secret value in JSON or an environment dump.
Single-process topology
The supported rule that exactly one Jiandu application process owns an installation, even when it uses PostgreSQL or remote blob storage.
Trusted proxy
The narrowly identified reverse proxy allowed to deliver the configured HTTPS browser origin to Jiandu's private HTTP listener.