Scoped Application
A Scoped Application is an app with its own namespace (for example x_acme_hr) that isolates its tables, scripts and artifacts from other applications and restricts what outside code can touch.
Also searched as: application scope, scoped app, global vs scoped.
In practice
Scope prevents name collisions and enforces cross-scope privileges: a scoped Script Include must be marked 'Accessible from: All application scopes' before another scope can call it. The global scope is the legacy, unrestricted namespace and should be avoided for new work.
Example
An HR app in scope x_acme_hr creates x_acme_hr_case; a global business rule can only query it if the app's cross-scope access records allow it.
What interviewers check
Senior screens ask 'scoped or global?' to hear you weigh shippability and isolation against the API restrictions scope imposes.
Practise this topic
Related Platform terms
- Update SetAn Update Set is a bundle of configuration changes captured on one instance so they can be previewed and committed on another — the standard way to move work from dev to test to production.
- ACL (Access Control)An ACL (Access Control rule) grants or denies an operation — create, read, write, delete — on a table, a field or a record, based on required roles, a condition and an optional script that sets the answer variable.