Asset Type Display Names

Every asset type's system name beside its default display name. This table is deliberately exhaustive — it exists so that tooling and AI agents can resolve a word seen in the UI (or heard from a user) to the system name a query needs, in one lookup. Humans wanting the story behind the mapping should start at the System Names and Display Names guide.

Two caveats govern every row:

• These are the defaults. Administrators can rename anything on the Terminology page, so a given instance may display different words. Generate the table for a specific instance with tools/instance-driver/examples/list-display-names.js --markdown in the documentation repository.
• Where the display name simply repeats the system name, the type has no friendlier default — many of those are internal machinery that rarely surfaces in the UI.

Some display names have also changed over time: Scope has been displayed as Project and, commonly today, Planning Level — the latter arriving as an instance-level terminology override rather than a shipped default.

Shipped Template Sets

Beyond per-instance overrides, the product ships methodology template sets — Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgileUP, Catalyst, and Team — that pre-package terminology on top of the base (how sets stack and override). Their asset-type renames are few:

System name	Scrum	DSDM	AgileUP	Catalyst	Team
Story	Backlog Item	Requirement	Requirement	—	—
Theme	—	—	Use Case	Feature Group	Feature Group
Timebox	Sprint	—	—	Sprint	Sprint

XP ships no renames at all — its terminology is the base set unchanged. Template sets also rename words that aren't asset types: Scrum, for example, displays Customer as Product Owner. So a word you don't find in the table below may still be a template-set or per-instance rename of something that is.

Common Informal Names

Some asset types are usually referred to by words that are neither their display name nor any terminology entry — the vocabulary people (and the product's own features) actually use:

What people say	What the API calls it
comment, reply	Expression — one message in a thread; see working with comments
thread	Conversation — the container an Expression belongs to
field	an attribute, defined by an AttributeDefinition — "field" is a UX word with no asset type behind it; see field visibility
user	Member

When a word from a user matches nothing in the tables above, try it as one of these before concluding the instance has custom terminology.

False Friends

A few system names read like something they aren't:

• PlanningLevel is not the Scope asset type, even though instances commonly display Scope as "Planning Level". PlanningLevel is a list type — displayed as Level — whose values populate the Scope.PlanningLevel dropdown. When someone says "Planning Level" they almost always mean Scope.
• Message has nothing to do with comments or conversations. It is an announcement delivered to members' inboxes — displayed as Notification, with Recipients, read Receipts, and a Send operation. Comments live on Conversation and Expression.

System name	Default display name
Access	Access
Actual	Actual
Allocation	Budget Segment
Application	Application
AssetChangedEventDefinition	AssetChangedEventDefinition
AssetCreatedEventDefinition	AssetCreatedEventDefinition
AssetNumberAttributeDefinition	AssetNumberAttributeDefinition
AssetType	Type
Attachment	Attachment
AttachmentCategory	AttachmentCategory
AttributeAddedEventDefinition	AttributeAddedEventDefinition
AttributeChangedEventDefinition	AttributeChangedEventDefinition
AttributeRemovedEventDefinition	AttributeRemovedEventDefinition
BaseAsset	BaseAsset
BaseRule	BaseRule
BaseSyntheticAttributeDefinition	BaseSyntheticAttributeDefinition
Budget	Budget
BuildProject	Pipeline
BuildRun	Pipeline Run
BuildSource	BuildSource
BuildStatus	BuildStatus
Bundle	Package
BusinessRule	BusinessRule
CalendarEvent	Calendar Event
CalendarEventCategory	Calendar Event Type
Capacity	Capacity
ChangeSet	Commit
ClassOfService	Class of Service
Community	Community
Concept	Concept
Conversation	Conversation
CredentialsAttributeDefinition	CredentialsAttributeDefinition
DefaultRule	DefaultRule
Defect	Defect
DefectResolution	Defect Resolution
DefectType	Defect Type
Delivery	Delivery
DeliveryCategory	Delivery Category
EmbeddedImage	EmbeddedImage
Environment	Environment
Epic	Portfolio Item
EpicCategory	Portfolio Item Type
EpicPriority	Portfolio Item Priority
EpicStatus	Portfolio Item Status
EventDefinition	EventDefinition
ExecuteSecurityCheckAttributeDefinition	ExecuteSecurityCheckAttributeDefinition
Expression	Expression
ExpressionImage	ExpressionImage
ExpressionSpace	ExpressionSpace
ExternalAction	ExternalAction
ExternalActionInvocation	ExternalActionInvocation
Goal	Backlog Goal
GoalCategory	Backlog Goal Type
GoalPriority	Backlog Goal Priority
Grant	Grant
HierarchyRelationDefinition	HierarchyRelationDefinition
Idea	Idea
IdeaCategory	Category
IdeaChangeSet	IdeaChangeSet
IdeaComment	Comment
IdeaForum	Forum
IdeaStatus	Idea Status
IdeasUserCache	IdeasUserCache
IdeaUser	User
Image	Image
InsertUpdateRule	InsertUpdateRule
Issue	Issue
IssueCategory	Issue Type
IssuePriority	Issue Priority
IssueResolution	Issue Resolution
IssueStatus	IssueStatus
KeyResult	Key Result
KeyResultCommitment	KeyResultCommitment
KeyResultUnit	KeyResultUnit
Label	Label
Link	Link
LinkCategory	Link Type
List	List
ManyToManyRelationDefinition	Multi Select
Member	Member
MemberLabel	Member Group
Message	Notification
MessageReceipt	MessageReceipt
Milestone	Milestone
MilestoneCategory	Milestone Type
MultivalueAttributeDefinition	MultivalueAttributeDefinition
NoteCategory	NoteCategory
Okr	Okr
OkrObjective	Objective
OkrSession	OkrSession
OneToManyRelationDefinition	Dropdown
Operation	Operation
OperationExecutedEventDefinition	OperationExecutedEventDefinition
Override	Override
PasswordAttributeDefinition	PasswordAttributeDefinition
Phase	Phase
PlanningLevel	Level
PlanningRoom	PlanningRoom
PrimaryRelation	PrimaryRelation
PrimaryWorkitem	Backlog
PrincipalAttributeDefinition	PrincipalAttributeDefinition
Publication	Publication
RegressionPlan	Regression Plan
RegressionSuite	Regression Suite
RegressionTest	Regression Test
RegressionTestStatus	Regression Test Status
RelationDefinition	RelationDefinition
Release	Release
Request	Request
RequestCategory	Request Type
RequestPriority	Request Priority
RequestResolution	Request Resolution
RequestStatus	Request Status
Retrospective	Retrospective
RetrospectivePrompt	RetrospectivePrompt
RetrospectiveTopic	RetrospectiveTopic
Roadmap	Roadmap
Role	Role
Room	Room
SavedView	SavedView
Schedule	Iteration Schedule
Scheme	Scheme
Scope	Project
ScopeLabel	Program
ScopeStatus	Project Status
SimpleAttributeDefinition	Field
State	Iteration State
Status	Status
Story	Story
StoryCategory	Story Type
StorySource	Story Source
StoryStatus	Backlog Status
StrategicTheme	Strategic Theme
StrategicThemeLevel	StrategicThemeLevel
Subscription	Subscription
SubscriptionTerm	SubscriptionTerm
SyntheticAttributeDefinition	SyntheticAttributeDefinition
Task	Task
TaskCategory	Task Type
TaskSource	Task Source
TaskStatus	Task Status
Team	Team
TeamRoom	TeamRoom
Test	Test
TestCategory	Test Type
TestRun	Test Run
TestSet	Test Set
TestStatus	Test Status
TestSuite	Test Suite
Theme	Backlog Group
ThemeCategory	Backlog Group Type
ThemeLabel	Backlog Group Area
ThemeSource	Backlog Group Source
ThemeStatus	Backlog Group Status
Timebox	Iteration
Timesheet	Timesheet
Topic	Topic
TriggerType	Trigger Type
UpdateSecurityCheckAttributeDefinition	UpdateSecurityCheckAttributeDefinition
ValueStream	ValueStream
VersionLabel	VersionLabel
Workitem	Workitem
WorkitemPriority	Workitem Priority
WorkitemRisk	Workitem Risk