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Achievement | Achievements are fully customisable using a series of rules and can have visual icons applied to them. You can use your data feed to create specific achievements, e.g. 100 logins, a first-time social share, the amount of exercise achieved over a week, the first win of the day, or a 500th purchase action. |
API | Application Programming Interface (API) is a software intermediary that allows for applications and systems to communicate with one another. |
Action Types | An action type is a way to describe what action was performed by the user, which then generates a specific data point. An example would be if the user placed a bet on a game called Apples-> action = bet. |
Adjustment Factor | An adjustment factor is a numerical value that will impact the points calculated and the display on the leaderboard. The purpose is to ensure members cannot understand the points strategy. |
| Action Adjustments | Action Adjustments is when there are different actions in a variety of products and these have different values. If the user would like certain action types to have a specific adjustment factor, it will need to be added. For example, if all win events are multiplied by 2, therefore the selected action will be WIN and the adjustment factor will be 2. |
| Award | The prize (reward) that is allcoated to the player. |
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Boolean Flag | Is a system of Algebraic notation that is used to create logical propositions by means of the binary statements False (0) and True (1). Boolean expressions use the operators AND, OR, XOR and NOT to compare values and return a true or false result. |
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Collaborator | A collaborator in the ZIQNI system is a user that has permission to make changes to your created project. The access a collaborator has to a project is dependent on their role, either full or restricted. |
Competition | A Competition is a collection of Contests/Tournaments that players can participate in. Competitions can include as many or as few Contests as required. It can also be thought of as the wrapper around a Contest. |
| Connection | A configuration that allows you to connect to external event queues, consume data from those queues and add the data directly into the event stream. N.B. an Event Consumer requires a Transformer. See also: 'Transformer' |
Contest | A Contest in ZIQNI is a single promotion based on a single scoring event or a combination of scoring events. A Contest can take many forms, such as Tournaments, Leaderboards, Leagues, Point targets, Achievements, Objectives and Events. |
| Compute Engine | It is a container used in ZIQNI to run custom software that allows the user to intergrate using our transformers. To be able to use a ZIQNI transformer, a compute engine is required. |
| Custom Fields | Custom fields are used to provide additional information to records that are not found on the standard create tab. An example would be if the user wanted to add DOB for members' records. The user would do this by creating a custom field for this information to be entered. |
| CMS | Content Management System (CMS) refer to items such as JavaScript and image files. These are what ensures the front-end design of the website not only looks good but also works well! At Ziqni these assets are saved in the CMS repository of the users' spaces and can be marked as private or public. |
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Event | Any Product generated data point, that is submitted to ZIQNI, can be used as an Action Helper. |
Event Points Value | The points value of the event that is used for scoring mechanisms in Contests. Event Points Value can also have an Adjustment Factor multiplier applied to it. |
Event Source Value | This is the actual numerical value related to an Event received from a product. |
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ISO code | A two or three letter alpha or numeric code which delineates currency designators and country codes. For example, the ISO currency code for the British Pound is 'GBP' and the country code is GB'. |
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Kafka | An open-source data stream-processing software platform that is written in Scala and Java. |
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Leaderboard | An online scoreboard or rankings list showing all members and their current score in a given Tournament/Contest. |
Language | ZIQNI allows the user to translate specific fields such as labels and descriptions. To have these fields translated successfully, the user must add each language that will be used. |
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Messaging queues | See 'Connection' |
Metadata | A data set that describes and gives information about the unseen elements of another set of related data. Can be used to directly communicate website information. For example, metadata can control which version of a widget is displayed to members. |
Member | At Ziqni, a member is a term used to describe clients' customers. Other organizations may refer to members as players. A member must exist in the system to be included in Competitions, Contests, and Achievements. |
Member Tags | A set of members grouped together under a pre-created Member Tag. This allows for a quick selection of 'like' members for activity creation. Typically members are grouped together based on similar characteristics such as value or playing days. For example, high-value members might all be grouped under a 'VIP' member group. |
Mission | A sequence of two or more Achievements chained together to create an overall Mission. Individual achievements can be independent of each other or inter-dependencies between Achievements can be created. For example, a Wager Achievement could be dependent upon the member first making a deposit or, they could be separate events. |
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Product | A game entity within a product vertical such as a Slot Machine, Table Game, a Betting Market, Poker Tournament or a Role Playing Game. |
Public API | It is a publicly accessible resource of data, decorated in a JSON format for developers to utilise. |
Points | The value assigned to a member via a Scoring Mechanism from a certain Product. |
Prize | The reward that is on offer for finishing in a certain position on a tournament leaderboard or for completing an Achievement or Mission. |
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Rabbit MQ | A message broker or queue manager that allows applications to connect to it. |
Reward | A reward is something that is earned by a member. Rewards can be defined as a reinforcer. |
| Reward Type | A reward type is where the user names the reward that will be allocated when all criteria have been met. Examples of rewards could be gift cards, badges, etc. |
Rules | A logical system when something must be completed first or in a set order, or any other configuration to make the rule valid. |
Round | An individual Contest within a group of Contests. Typically later Rounds will have a dependency on the preceding rounds. |
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Space | Your organisation's back office space where you can configure admin and production settings and create and manage activities such as Tournaments or Achievements. Typically an organisation will have two Spaces: Staging and Production. |
String | It is a sequence of characters. For example, “Hello” is a string of five characters. |
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| Tags | A tag is a way of grouping items/ data together making it easier to reference later. |
Tournaments | A Contest or a series of contests between a number of competitors, competing for an overall prize or prizes. See also: 'Competition' |
Transformers | ZIQNI Transformers allow for integration with the ZIQNI platform without having to make modifications to your message formats on your back-end systems. Using the ZIQNI Transformers, you can send a message to ZIQNI in your current format, transform the message into a form that can be accepted by the ZIQNI API, and push that message to ZIQNI. |
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| UOM | A unit of measure is created prior to an event. The unit can measure a variety of items, depending on what is required. Once created, these units can be edited and used at a later date. Examples of a unit measure could be a currency or a point in time. |
User | A collaborator that can use the ZIQNI back office. |
UTC | Coordinated Universal Time is the primary time standard by which the ZIQNI platform regulates clocks and time. All settings and configurations within the ZIQNI back office relating to time use the UTC standard. N.B. UTC is not a Time Zone, rather a Time Standard, and it is not adjusted for daylight saving time. |
UUID string | Universal Unique Identifier - is a number used to uniquely identify object or entity. |
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Webhooks | Webhooks are ways that web applications can communicate with each other. Webhooks enable the user to send real-time data from one application to another whenever a specific event occurs i.e. ZIQNI Webhooks allow you to receive notifications when a specific event occurs in the ZIQNI system. |
Widget | A customer-facing interface that provides Members with quick access to information relating to their current activities, such as current Tournament position, Member Inbox/Messages and Achievements. |