Core Concepts

Five ideas make up almost everything you'll do in Axiomers. Once these click, the rest of the builder is just where the buttons live.

Apps

An app is one complete, self-contained product — its own data, its own users, its own settings. You can build as many as you like; they never share data with each other, even if the same person is logged into two of them.

Collections

A collection is a table of records — "Products," "Orders," "Shifts," whatever your app is about. This is where you spend most of your time as a builder: every collection has its own fields (what data it stores), views (how it's displayed), and actions (what buttons do).

Fields

A field is a single piece of data on a record — a name, a price, a date, a photo, a link to another collection. A field is either:

• Typed in — a person fills it in on a form.
• Computed — its value is calculated from a formula instead, and updates automatically whenever it's viewed (e.g. quantity × price, or "how many orders does this customer have").

Views & Actions

A view is a way of looking at a collection — a table, a grid of cards, a calendar, a chart, a dashboard, or the detail page for a single record. A collection can have several; you pick a default and let people switch between the rest.

An action is a button with logic behind it. Editing a field by hand is the simplest kind of change, but real workflows need more — creating a related record, updating many records at once, or chaining several steps together. That's what actions are for.

Roles & permissions

Once your app has real users, you decide who can see and do what — per collection, per role. A person's role is set when they sign up (using a default you choose) or assigned by you from the Users page at any time. See Roles, Permissions & Users.

Always available, always in sync

Every change a person makes saves instantly on their device — even with no internet — and syncs to everyone else automatically the moment a connection is available. Nobody has to "save and wait" or worry about losing work on a bad connection; it just catches up in the background.