--- title: How to use your own words for Tideswell's records url: https://tideswell.xyz/docs/workspace-admin/terminology description: Rename Tideswell's built-in kinds of record, such as Supplier to Vendor, from Settings › Terminology, and put the original word back. --- > Documentation index: fetch https://tideswell.xyz/llms.txt to discover every page before exploring further. # How to use your own words for Tideswell's records **Settings › Terminology** is where an admin chooses what the workspace calls the kinds of record Tideswell ships, such as Supplier, Purchase Order, Customer and Task. The screen describes itself as "What this workspace calls each of Tideswell's record types." A new word shows for everyone in the workspace, and never changes the records themselves. See for the rest of Settings. Fairgreen Golf Co. calls the mills it buys from vendors, so it renames Supplier to Vendor. Portside Mills and Kaimen Knitwear keep every order, term and contact they had. ## Before you start [#before-you-start] **Settings** sits at the foot of the menu for admins of the workspace, and this is one of its rows. Saving a word needs the **Rename organization** row in **Settings › Permissions**, which admins have by default. See . ## How do you rename one? [#how-do-you-rename-one] Each kind of record is one row, in alphabetical order of Tideswell's own word. The row holds two boxes: the name for one, and the plural for more than one. 1. Open **Settings › Terminology**. 2. Find the row, for example Supplier. 3. Type your word in the first box, such as "Vendor". 4. Type the plural in the second box, such as "Vendors". 5. Press **Save** on that row. **Save** wakes up once you change a box, and each row saves on its own. Words chosen while your workspace was being set up show in these boxes too, ready to change the same way. ## How do you see what Tideswell calls it? [#how-do-you-see-what-tideswell-calls-it] A renamed row shows a line under the boxes, such as "Tideswell calls this Supplier / Suppliers." That line appears only once a row has its own word, so a row without one is still using Tideswell's. The help pages use Tideswell's own words. When a page mentions a supplier, that line tells you which of your words it means. ## How do you put Tideswell's word back? [#how-do-you-put-tideswells-word-back] Press **Reset** on the row. It appears beside **Save** once a row has been renamed, and returns both the name and the plural to Tideswell's words. Your records stay exactly as they were, whichever word is showing. ## Where does the new word show? [#where-does-the-new-word-show] In the places that name the kind of record inside a sentence or a list. A trigger in **Brain › Workflows** reads "When a vendor is created", and the lists on **Settings › Stages** and **Settings › Custom fields** use your plural. Menu labels, Settings rows, page titles and the rows on **Settings › Permissions** keep Tideswell's word. So **Buying › Suppliers** still reads Suppliers, and a menu path in these help pages always matches your screen. ## How do you rename your own Objects? [#how-do-you-rename-your-own-objects] On the Object itself, not here. An **Object** is a kind of record your team defined, such as Repairs, and its name and plural belong to it. Open **Settings › Objects**, click the Object and change its names on the **Configuration** tab. covers it, and explains what an Object is. ## What else can a workspace name for itself? [#what-else-can-a-workspace-name-for-itself] Several lists in Settings are yours to word. * **Settings › Stages** renames the stages a purchase order, an outreach, a special order, a project item and a production order move through. See . * **Settings › Departments** holds your teams, covered in . * **Settings › Sub-task types** and **Settings › Outreach types** hold the kinds of sub-task and outreach your team uses. See and . * **Settings › Custom fields** adds boxes of your own to suppliers, covered in .