Here’s all you need to know to speak Kuali fluently ….

Action List – The online application that lists eDocs routed to you for appropriate action. You may select an eDoc from the list and open it to approve, complete, acknowledge, or just FYI, depending on the applicable business rules. EDocs appear in your Action List only when your action is requested, and disappear after you act on them.

Community Sourcing – a model for the purposeful coordination of work in a community. It is based on many of the principles of open source development efforts, but community source efforts rely more explicitly on defined roles, responsibilities, and funded commitments by community members than some general open source efforts.

custom attribute – a business element or "attribute" that may be created in Kuali and added as a field to any maintenance document. It may be used to extend business or organizational concepts that are specific to an institution and beyond the basic Kuali design. Examples include assigning an account level in an organization hierarchy, linking project accounts, linking departments in a project, or linking accounts to cost pools.

eDoc – short for "electronic document", an online business transaction initiated in a Web-based form and routed electronically through a prescribed sequence of approvers. When the eDoc has been through its entire approval process, it is maintained in a database for future reference.

EDoc Search – The online application that lists eDocs by search conditions that you choose. You may select an eDoc in the search results and view its contents or its routing sequence.

FIS – the legacy Indiana University Fiscal Information System application that determines the baseline KFS functionality. It is a client/server application developed in the 1990s.

Kuali – (ku-wah-lee) 1) kitchen wok - humble utensil which plays an important role in a successful kitchen, 2) Kuali Financial Systems – insanely fine, collaboratively developed, modular financial information system for higher education, 3) Community sourced development effort for distributed services in higher-education, including:

• Kuali Financial Systems (KFS)
• Kuali Endowment Module (KEM)
• Kuali Research Administration (KRA)
• Kuali Enterprise Workflow (KEW)
• Kuali Nervous System (KNS)

Kuali Nervous System (KNS) – underlying infrastructure code that any Kuali module may employ to perform its functions. The KNS is a set of functionality common to many modules. Examples include creating custom attributes, attaching electronic images, uploading data from desktop applications, lookup/search routines, and database interaction.

maintenance document – an eDoc initiated to create or modify, i.e., "maintain", a Kuali table record. Maintenance documents can be initiated from the Menu for a large variety of attributes, e.g., Account, Account Delegate, Object Code, Project Code, etc.

Poster and Scrubber – Two batch processes in the General Ledger module run nightly that post and validate new data, respectively, for the General Ledger tables.

program code – a Chart field that satisfies community college reporting requirements. If entered, it is displayed on all eDocs.

workflow / Workflow Services / Kuali Enterprise Workflow (KEW) – the Kuali infrastructure service that electronically routes an eDoc to its approvers in a prescribed sequence, according to established business rules based on the eDoc content.

workgroup – a group of users designated for eDoc routing that share a common business function. EDocs may be routed at any point in their approval to individuals or workgroups. Workgroup approvals may require approval of all workgroup members or any one member.