Glossary

This glossary will grow as the technical draft is verified and migrated.

Term	Meaning
NADABAS	National Accounts Database System.
Add-in	The Excel artifact that hosts the NADABAS VBA project.
Exported VBA	Text-based .bas, .cls, .frm, and related .frx files stored under vba/.
Source of truth	The version-controlled representation from which a review or build is performed. For VBA, this is the exported source below vba/.
Review build	A non-production add-in created from reviewed source for functional verification.
Security approval	A narrow, version-controlled exception for one expected scanner finding; it is not a general suppression.
ADR	Architecture Decision Record.
Architecture claim	A reviewable statement with a stable identifier, evidence status, and source or test reference.
Base database	The default database role used for workbook data and NADABAS system metadata.
BCP 47	The standard syntax used to identify a human language, and optionally script or region, in digital content.
Exchange database	A database role selected temporarily by NADABAS import and export workflows.
Informative translation	A translation supplied for understanding that is not the authoritative basis for technical change decisions.
Normative working version	The version against which technical changes and review dispositions are recorded. It does not imply legal normativity.
Review baseline	The exact source commit, documentation version, deployment scope, and evidence set assessed by reviewers.
Satellite database	An optional database role linked through configuration to a base database.
Source-verified	Directly supported by exported source at the stated commit; runtime behaviour may still require testing.
Trust boundary	A point where data or control crosses between components with different security or operational assumptions.
DBLinks	A workbook named range whose rows define database load and save operations.
ExchLinks	A workbook named range used by exchange-database import and export operations.
Key family	A user-defined set of dimensions represented by a database table with value and provenance columns.
Dirty state	NADABAS session state indicating data may need a database save; separate from Excel’s file-saved state.
Base path	The configured root used to resolve portable paths beginning with !.
Legacy draft	A statement inherited from the retained Word draft that is not established by the current source baseline.