Content Category (Object)

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collections_bookmark Content Category node objects are containers within a stacks Content Model that hold other Content Categories and description Document Type objects. They allow for further classification and grouping of Document Types within a taxonomy, aiding in the logical structuring of complex document sets. Besides grouping Document Types together, Content Categories also serve to create new branches in a Data Element hierarchy. In most cases Content Categories are used as organizational buckets to group like Document Types together.

A more complicated set of documents may exist, where some Document Types are a sub-category of a larger Document Type. This could just be useful for logically organizing Document Types into categories. Furthermore, this is part of creating a hierarchical structure in a Content Model. The Content Category, as a child of the parent Content Model, will inherit the Content Model's Data Model and its Data Elements. Document Types, as children of the Content Category, will inherit the parent Content Category's Data Model (including the Content Model's Data Model that it inherited).

For example, if a set of documents contains Invoices, Checks, Receipts and Purchase Orders, they might fit into a Content Category of "Payments" and other Document Types might be placed under other Content Categories. All of the Document Types in the "Payments" Content Category would inherit from both the Content Category and the Content Model itself.