Concepts

The vocabulary and ideas behind how Stubber works.

This section explains the core ideas you'll encounter throughout the rest of the documentation — what a stub is, how templates define processes, how data flows through actions, and how people and permissions fit together. It's reference material rather than step-by-step instructions: read the parts you need, when you need them.

# Where to start

If you're new to Stubber, the following pages cover the ground floor:

• Overview — what Stubber is, in one page.
• The Stubber Framework — the conceptual model the platform is built on.
• Templates and Stubs — the single most important distinction in the platform.
• Template Structure — how a template is laid out.
• States and Actions — how a process actually progresses.

# How this section is organized

The pages in this section fall into a few loose groups:

• Foundations — Overview, Framework, Templates and Stubs, Template Structure, Program, Stubref.
• Building blocks — States and Actions, Action Execution, State Hooks, Template Inheritance, Conditions, Naming Conventions.
• Data — Data Structures, Variable Substitution, StubberDB, Stub Session.
• People and permissions — Orgs, Contacts, Contact Lists, Teams and Permissions, Responsibility and Accountability, Credentials.
• Capabilities and integrations — Knowledge Library Articles, Virtual Worker, Webhooks, Public Forms, LIDs, Short URLs.
• Reference — Libraries, Stubbucks.

For building work — templates, layouts, actions, blocks — see Templates. For the applications you'll use day-to-day (Console, Builder, Stubs), see Platform.