| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Advanced Settings | The switch at the top of the job dialog that shows the advanced settings. Hidden settings still apply. |
| App password | A Nextcloud password for one app or device. The SMART Migration server signs in to Nextcloud with one, created under Settings → Security. For a migration into a user's files, the app also creates one for that user automatically when the run starts, and revokes it when the run is over. |
| Claim | The moment the SMART Migration server takes a Ready job to run it. The job becomes Running and a Run History row opens. |
| Destination | Where a migration writes the files: a Nextcloud Team Folder or a user's personal files. |
| Disabled job | A job SMART Migration never picks up, whatever its status, until it is enabled again. |
| Discovery | A job mode that reads a source and reports what is there without moving anything. |
| Dynamic BI data query | A source type, under development: the files a Power BI DAX query or a SQL WHERE clause picks from the BI data, across every library and share Discovery has recorded. |
| Edit hold | While a job is open in the job dialog, SMART Migration does not start it. |
| File issue | A file a run could not handle as expected, listed on the File Issues tab. |
| File status | Where a file stands in the Power BI report: Discovery Report once found, Test Migration once tried, Migration once moved — back to Discovery Report when a later Discovery finds it changed since. Each file is in the report once, at its latest destination. |
| Focus mode | Power BI's full-screen view of one visual: point at the visual and click its Focus mode icon. |
| Group (Job Group) | The migration wave a job belongs to. Organises the trees and is carried into the Power BI report. |
| Import job | A job that creates jobs: from the lines of a CSV file, or from the libraries or OneDrives a scan finds. Its mode is shown as Job Import. |
| Incremental migration | Running a migration again so it copies only what is new or changed, with the rule Add New Overwrite Existing By Newer. Each run still reads the whole source; compare Incremental run. |
| Incremental run | A run that reads only the files created or modified since the job's last successful run, set with Incremental (only files changed since the last successful run) in the job dialog. Discovery can be incremental too. |
| Job | One unit of work: one source, what to do with it, and where the result goes. |
| Measure | A calculation in a Power BI report, such as a total volume, that follows every filter on the page. |
| MetaVox | A separate Nextcloud app that gives Team Folders metadata columns, into which SharePoint metadata is migrated. |
| Migration | The job mode that copies files into Nextcloud. |
| Mode | What a job does: Discovery, Test Migration, Migration — or Job Import. |
| Power BI Desktop | Microsoft's free Windows program that opens, refreshes and edits .pbix reports such as SMART BI.pbix. |
| Power BI service | Microsoft's paid online portal, where a published report is read in the browser and refreshed on a schedule. |
| Priority | High, Medium or Low: which Ready job the server takes first when more are waiting than it can run. |
| Recurrence | None, Daily, Weekly or Monthly: how often a job repeats. |
| Reporting database | The PostgreSQL database every run feeds, and SMART BI.pbix is refreshed from. Also called the BI database. |
| Result | How a run turned out: Ok, Warning or Error. |
| Run | One execution of a job, recorded as a row in Run History. |
| Run folder | A run's folder in Nextcloud Files, under SMART Migration Reports, holding its report and log. |
| Session | A SMART Migration working session, named by its SessionLogId. Its messages form the session log on a run's Log tab. |
| Slicer | A filter box on a Power BI page: a list to tick, a drop-down, a search box or a range. |
| SMART BI.pbix | The Power BI report on the reporting database, refreshed in Power BI Desktop and uploaded to Nextcloud. |
| SMART Migration server | The Windows program, in your own network, that runs the jobs. |
| Source | Where a job reads the files: a SharePoint or Teams library, a OneDrive, or a file share. |
| Status | Where a job is in its life: Hold, Ready, Deferred, Running, Canceling, Finished or Canceled. |
| Tag | A free label on a job, such as Pilot or Finance, that cuts across the groups. |
| Team Folder | A Nextcloud folder shared by a group of people with the same permissions, from the Team folders app. |
| Test Migration | A job mode that shows which files a migration would add as new and which it would overwrite, without moving anything. Its files show in the Power BI report as Test Migration. |
| UNC path | The address of a folder on a file share, such as \MyServer\MyShare\MyFolder. |
| UPN | User Principal Name: a Microsoft 365 user's sign-in address, such as anna@contoso.com. |
| Visual | One box on a Power BI page: a chart, a table, a figure or a filter. |
| Validated | A job whose definition is complete and correct, so it can be set to Ready. |
| Wave | A group of jobs migrated, checked and signed off together. In the app, a Job Group. |
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