Glossary

Glossary

Term	Meaning
Hooq	The app, and also one pair of projects with the rules for syncing them. You can have many Hooqs.
Hooqed	A work item that is part of a Hooq and has a partner.
Worklog	Time logged on a work item. The Worklogs tab decides whether Hooq copies it. In Enriched mode the copy starts with a line that says who logged the time.
Restricted worklog	A worklog that only a project role (or group) can see. Hooq keeps the restriction on the copy and never makes it public.
Partner	The other work item of a pair. Also called the copy when you look from the original.
Source / target project	The two projects of a Hooq. Which is which only matters for the direction of a mapping.
Same-instance Hooq	A Hooq between two projects on one Jira Cloud instance.
Cross-instance Hooq	A Hooq between projects on two different Jira Cloud instances. Needs a connector and approval from the other instance.
Connector	A trusted link between the Hooq on your instance and the Hooq on another instance. It must be Active to be used.
Draft / Pending / Active / Failed	Connector states. Draft: started, no partner saved yet. Pending: the partner's connector file is saved but the connector is not activated. Active: ready to use. Failed: the handshake did not work.
Instance	A Jira Cloud instance, for example your-company.atlassian.net.
Public key	A piece of text that identifies the Hooq on an instance. It is meant to be shared with your partner. It is saved in a public key file (.hooqkey).
Connector file	A small file (.hooqconnector) that your partner makes for you with your public key. You upload it to save the connector. It is valid for 5 minutes.
Work type	What Jira calls an issue type, for example Bug or Task.
Mapping	A rule that matches something in one project to something in the other (a work type, a field value or a status).
Correlation	A field mapping that matches the values of two fields one by one, for example drop-down options.
Limit Work Items	A JQL condition on the Work Types tab that keeps a Hooq to some work items.
JQL	Jira Query Language, Jira's search language.
Draft and published	Changes in Configuration are a draft. A Hooq works from the published configuration only.
Resync	Sending the current state of work items that already have a copy again.
Sync Health	The four numbers at the top of a Hooq: Issues synced, Errors, Last sync, Sync speed.
Hooq panel	The Hooq - Work Sync Panel on a work item.
Forge	Atlassian's platform that Hooq runs on. It sets some limits, for example the file size between instances.

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