Terminology

A reference guide for terminology used by Stringtale, categorized and sorted by alphabet.

General terms

Dashboard

Stringtale’s Dashboard is the main web UI where you can manage Workspaces, Projects, Users and API-keys.

Project

Typically a single product / repository or mono-repo for a single client. This is not required though as long as unique names are used for the Value tags.

Workspace

A Workspace is a collection of Projects. It allows you to share the same user access rights across multiple projects. We recommend using Workspaces to group Projects of a single client.

Tools

Browser Extension

The Stringtale browser extension simplifies the usage of Stringtale. It allows users to open the Stringtale interface on every project that makes use of it’s integration and allows them to make changes.

CLI

The Stringtale CLI is a utility to retrieve changes that are stored in Stringtale and apply them to your project. This can be used locally for a hands-on approach, but also gets used by the GitHub CI action to automatically create pull requests.

GitHub Action

The GitHub action allows you to automatically pull copy changes into your project using GitHub Actions. It can be either triggered by conditions set in a workflow yaml file, or using webhooks.

User types / User roles

Billing admin

Billing admins are users with limited access to Stringtale. They can only manage the Billing information and view invoices.

Developer

Developers have full access to the Stringtale Dashboard except for the Billing information. They can manage Workspaces, Projects and Users within your Stringtale account.

Editors

Editors are users with limited access to Stringtale. Editor accounts are used when you have a project that’s accessible for the public, They are user accounts that are scoped to one or more Workspaces, allowing them to make copy changes to projects within that Workspace.

Owners

Owners have full control over the Stringtale account. They can add/remove Workspaces, Projects and Users as well as manage the billing information and invoices.

Technical tersm

Value tag

All text that needs to be editable with Stringtale has to be wrapped in a <Value> tag with a name property. Example <Value name="src.index.example">Example</value>, more information can be found in the React front-end documentation.