# GudHub — Platform concepts

> The data model: applications, field lists, items, views, GH-Elements and automation.

## Platform concepts

- [Understanding Gudhub](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub.md)
- [Application](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/application.md)
- [Overview
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/application/app-data-structure-overview.md): Before reading this chapter, recommend you get acquainted with the application. Data can have different forms and meanings, various types and values. The way of
- [Apps List
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/application/apps-list.md): GudHub users can create and get access to shared applications. All of them, including shared ones, are contained in apps list. And due to this, they are display
- [Field List
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/application/field-list.md): As we know from the items list each data has its type. Thanks to this application knows what to do with any particular data. It uses special models to find out
- [File List
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/application/file-list.md): There are many different blocks that are aimed at loading files. Their data do not save in items list . There is a separated array for that called file list . I
- [Icon
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/application/icon.md): The first thing we see in the application is an icon. This sweet tiny picture is a cover that draws attention. Therefore it is no less important part of the app
- [Items List
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/application/items-list.md): Every application has lots of information from inputs. For the application to be able to preserve and exploit that, it uses something like data storage called i
- [Views List
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/application/views-list.md): Before starting this chapter, let’s talk about views . The view is the main container for all fields, elements, and blocks in the application. Roughly speaking,
- [Automation](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/automation.md)
- [Automation Overview
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/automation/automation-overview.md): Most of gh element has a special settings tab where you can configure additional functions that will be automatically triggered when the element is running. Thi
- [Automation Settings
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/automation/automation-settings.md): Automation is part of the GudHub functionality. The essence of its work is to assemble nodes into a certain chain. In this way you can manually configure the au
- [Data Philosophy
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/data-phylosophy.md): As you already know from Introduction, GudHub consists of applications that can be connected together. The applications are created by the users. Each of them c
- [Data](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/data.md)
- [Value Formatting
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/data/value-formatting.md): Lots of gh element store some values. Despite of usual databases, GudHub has no column types. All values in GudHub are stored as a string type data. That is why
- [GH-Elements](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/gh-elements-structure.md)
- [GH-Elements Overview
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/gh-elements-structure/gh-elements-overview.md): gh elements are flexible UI elements with lots of options for useful and comfortable configuration. There are more than 100 different elements in GudHub. Each o
- [Setting Overview
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/gh-elements-structure/setting-overview.md): GH elements are the elements that the GudHub consists of. They perform a wide variety of functions. Each can be configured with the help of its own sets of opti
- [Introduction Data Structure
                #](https://gudhub.com/docs/understanding-gudhub/introduction-core-api.md): GudHub is a cloud based low code platform, you can access it from web browsers. It is a simple resource for easy development. Due to an intuitive interface, you