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Topics

A topic has six tabs: Overview, Definition, Updates, Usage, Access, and Activity.

A topic’s detail page, showing its facts with source attribution

Overview

Section titled “Overview”

The topic’s structured facts, each with its source. This is what workflows and chat read for specific answers.

Facts are typed by the topic’s type. An empty field means either no source has mentioned it, or Alma wasn’t confident enough to write it.

Definition

Section titled “Definition”

The topic’s governance settings:

  • Type — which schema type it follows
  • Sources — which connected sources feed it
  • Refresh — automatic synthesis, or manual only
  • New facts — Auto-apply writes confident facts live; Ask first holds them as proposals for someone to accept
  • Compaction — how the narrative is condensed as it grows

Sources are picked from your real connections, not typed as free text.

Updates

Section titled “Updates”

The topic’s narrative, newest first. Where Overview answers “what’s the renewal date,” Updates answers “what’s been going on with this account.”

A topic’s Updates tab, showing the narrative timeline

Each entry is attributed to its source.

Usage

Section titled “Usage”

Where this topic is read — which workflows, chats, and spaces draw on it. Check this before archiving a topic that looks dormant.

Access

Section titled “Access”

Topics use the same model as everything else in Alma: a baseline plus rules.

A topic’s Access tab, showing the baseline audience and specific rules

Baseline is the floor: Everyone, Admins & up, or Owners only.

Rules grant or block specific groups or people, with a capability:

Capability Means
Can view Read the topic
Can edit Change its facts and definition
Full access Edit, plus manage access

Resolution follows the same rule as elsewhere: an explicit Deny wins, and a more specific rule (person > group > baseline) overrides a broader one.

Reserve topic-level access for sensitive cases — compensation, an acquisition, anything legal. A workflow that can’t read a topic can’t ground its work in it.

Activity

Section titled “Activity”

Creating and archiving

Section titled “Creating and archiving”

Create a topic manually from the Memory list, or let a research campaign propose one. Proposed topics arrive as suggested and wait for you to accept them.

Archiving hides a topic without deleting it. Check Usage first.

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