Your cloud-based Data Store is organised into things called Objects, Collections and Modules.
Objects #
Objects are individual items, such as a person, an organisation or a car. Each Object contains Fields which are the bits of data associated with the object, such as First Name, Last Name and Age.
If you’re familiar with databases, then an Object can be thought of as a “record”. If you use spreadsheets then you can think of an Object as a “row” in your sheet.
In SPACEtag® Objects, the Objects have a pre-defined structure of Fields based on common industry-wide definitions – but you also can extend these by creating your own additional Fields using the data.field and data.field.group Objects.
Collections #
Collections hold groups of the same Object so that you can query and filter on all of the Objects in a Collection, enabling you to return those Objects that meet a certain criteria. For example, you can filter on the contacts.person Collection to get all of the contacts.person Objects where their age is 30.
If you’re familiar with databases then a Collection can be thought of as a “table”, whereas spreadsheet users can think of a “sheet” as a Collection, as the sheet contains all of the rows to filter on.
Modules #
Modules are logical groups of Containers, which generally contain Objects that are considered related. For example, in the Contacts module, you will find people, organisations and notes – all elements which you would find in a Contact Management or CRM system. Within the Modules you are able to link objects together, for example linking multiple people to an organisation. In database-speak, we’d call these “relationships”.