Glossary

Term	Meaning
Access window	The period around a scheduled slot during which a patient can answer it
Analytics dashboard	A set of charts arranged on a grid with shared filters
Anonymous questionnaire	A questionnaire published through a public link and answered without identifying the respondent
API key	A credential for external systems, with its own scopes and optional expiry
Chart	A visualisation of a dataset
Clinical source	A connection to a hospital system (for example a FHIR server) from which patient data is read
Consent document	A versioned, translated text that patients accept before taking part
Dataset	A selection of submissions and clinical data used by charts
Device	A patient's paired phone or tablet running the Medipal mobile app
Engine (questionnaire engine)	The bundle that renders questionnaires; combines the questionnaire core with question components
Engine builder	The tool that assembles an engine from a manifest and publishes it
Enrollment	The link between a patient and a questionnaire, with its schedule
Event	A record of something that happened in the instance, for example "submission created"
Event subscription	A rule that delivers matching events to a webhook
Folder	A node in the questionnaire tree that carries configuration and permissions
Fork	A new questionnaire created from an existing one, keeping the link to its origin
Instance	One Medipal deployment serving one organisation
Plugin	An installable extension of the API (server plugin) or the web app (frontend plugin)
Plugin instance	One configured copy of a plugin, with its own settings
Publish	Making a questionnaire revision available to patients
Question component	The user-interface element that renders one question type inside an engine
Questionnaire core	The shared rendering runtime: question flow, validation, languages, variables and scoring
Revision	One saved version of a questionnaire
Role	A named set of scopes assigned to users
Schedule	The rule that decides when a patient should answer a questionnaire
Scope	A fine-grained permission such as reading questionnaires or managing users
Simulation	Running a questionnaire or workflow with test input without creating real data
Slot	One planned occurrence of a scheduled questionnaire for one patient
Submission	One completed questionnaire with its answers, variables and scores
Tenant	The organisation an instance belongs to
Variable	A named value computed from answers, available to logic, scoring and workflows
Vault	Encrypted storage for secrets, referenced by name from configuration
Webhook	An HTTPS endpoint outside Medipal that receives signed event deliveries
Workflow	An automation that reacts to events with a graph of steps
Workflow run	One execution of a workflow, with the state of every step