Skip to content
Kelly's Data Modeling Manual
Kelly's Data Modeling Manual
Common Data Modeling Scenarios
Core Concepts
Glossary
Share
Explore

icon picker
Glossary

Terms Used in this Document
Term
Definition
Junction Table
A Data Type that “joins” two records together and contains additional information about the relationship between those two things.
Table
Another term for “Data Type” (this is what it’s called in traditional programming lingo)
To Maintain
Sometimes, a field relies on something else in the database, and if that other thing changes, this field also needs to change. In your app, you need a way for that field to be “maintained” meaning you create some logic where if that other thing changes, this field automatically gets changed as well. Often achieved via a backend workflow or Database Trigger.
UID
The “unique id” of a record in your Bubble database. Bubble creates this automatically for every new record and it can’t be changed. It’s the way Bubble identifies that individual record.
Workload Units
How Bubble measures your usage. You have a max number of workload units each month and if you go over, it can cost you actual dollars.
Hidden Variable
A group or repeating group that you put on the page and make hidden, where you set the data source of that GR or RG to a specific bit of data. You can then access that Variable (which you name “VAR [Description of Thing]”) anywhere in your page elements or workflows. For example: if you need to access the user’s most-recently modified project in a bunch of places, you’d create a VAR Project Last Modified variable on the page with a data source of: Do a search for Projects where Owner = Current User Sorted by Modified Date (Descending=yes), First Item).
B2B
Business-to-Business (your app serves companies)
B2C
Business-to-Consumer (your app serves individual people)
Satellite Data Types
A data type that exists primarily to store additional information related to a “main" data type, without containing the core identifying information itself.
There are no rows in this table
⁠

Want to print your doc?
This is not the way.
Try clicking the ⋯ next to your doc name or using a keyboard shortcut (
CtrlP
) instead.