Kameleon terminology
🇦 A-D
Name | Definition |
|---|---|
Add-in | Kameleon is a Office web addin which has a cross-platform support https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/overview/office-add-ins |
Addressfield | Used in company unit information |
Admin user | Users belonging to the admin group can perform all functions in the portal. Kameleon Content Tool can be deployed to Admins |
Audit log | Page in Kameleon portal which contains information about actions what users have made. |
Author | Required information in Kameleon documents. According to the author's company, the document will include a logo, units and their address information. |
Business owner | Users belonging to the business-owner group can see the statistics, but cannot make any updates in the portal |
Content | See Document template |
Content admin | Users belonging to the content-admins group can edit content and create new content. Kameleon Content Tool can be deployed to Content-admins |
Content control | Data placeholders that can only be used in Word. They can be tied to metadata or can provide instructional text for users, and you can set controls to disappear when users type in their own text |
Content tool | A tool for administrators. Available in Office programs Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Includes maintenance features. |
Data sources | Data sources are used to provide data from external sources to meta groups and -fields |
Document | See Document template |
Document template | Document content. Can be found on the Kameleon portal Document templates page |
🇪 E-K
Name | Definition |
|---|---|
End user | A user with rights to create and edit documents using Kameleon applications |
Images | A page in the Kameleon portal where images can be uploaded and categorized. The end user can see the images in Office applications |
Integrations | A page in the Kameleon portal where various integrations can be authorized. Currently available are Sharepoint, Entra, Visma Sign and Dynamics 365 |
🇱 L-O
Name | Definition |
|---|---|
Layout template | Layout Template that can be used in several different documents. Using a layout template, documents have a consistent color scheme, fonts, and page settings, etc. Helps save time and streamline document management |
Logo | A logo is an image file that can be assigned a location and size in a document. Logos are defined for companies and can be assigned different language versions. |
Metadata | Metadata is information about data. In Office documents, it usually means document summary information, custom properties, and custom XML parts. These allow data to be integrated into different systems, such as SharePoint. |
Metagroup | A group to which metafields can be assigned. Metagroups can be assigned to document categories as default values or directly to documents. Groups help reuse defined data |
🇵 P-S
Name | Definition |
|---|---|
Office ribbon | The ribbon is a set of toolbars at the top of the window in Office programs designed to help you quickly find the commands that you need to complete a task |
Phrase | A phrase is a single word document that can be a few words or many pages long. It can contain text, images, tables, etc. Can only be used in the Word application |
Placeholder | Placeholders are in the body of the document or in the header and footer. Placeholders can be added using the Kameleon content tool. Placeholders can display metadata, terms, phrases, etc. |
Portal | Kameleon portal is a web-based user interface to manage tenant information |
Release note | A description of the changes that are made whenever a new version of Kameleon is released. Found on the Kameleon support website homepage |
Role | The role is assigned to user groups. Currently available are admin, content-admin, business-owner and signee. |
Slide sets | PowerPoint presentations whose individual slides can be used in other presentations. The files are uploaded to the Slides page in the Kameleon portal, through which they become visible to end users in the PowerPoint application |
Statistics | Page on the Kameleon portal which gives you information of Kameleon usage. Page is available for Admins and Business-owners |
🇹 T-Z
Name | Definition |
|---|---|
Task pane | Kameleon task pane is a window docked to the side of the application window that provides access to Kameleon tools and features. Kameleon can be opened from the Office Home ribbon by clicking Show Kameleon.  |
Template | See Layout Template or Document template |
Terms | Commonly used words in documents. You can define language versions for words and add them to documents using the Kameleon maintenance tool. |
User | Configured in the Kameleon portal so that different levels of rights can be granted through user groups |
User group | User groups are used to define different roles for users and can be used also without any role to control visibility on contents |