Data Model for Catalog Item

[Linda Eju]

Greetings Team,

I am creating a data model for catalog items for my team. I'm looking for a good online example. Can someone point me in the right direction?

[Amitoj Wadhera]

Hi @Linda Eju ,

Creating a data model for catalog items can be quite detailed, as it involves various components like product information, categories, pricing, and relationships between different entities. Here are a few examples and resources that can help guide you through building a comprehensive data model:

1. **Basic Product and Sales Data Model**:
- **Product Table**: Includes attributes like `name`, `price_per_unit`, `basic_unit`, `tax_percentage`, `limited`, `in_stock`, and `active_for_sale`.
- **Sale Table**: Contains `time_created`, `time_paid`, `sale_amount`, `sale_amount_paid`, `tax_amount`, and references to sale status and user roles.
- **Sale Item Table**: Connects products and sales with attributes like `quantity_sold`, `price_per_unit`, `price`, `tax_amount`, and references to `sale_id` and `product_id`

2. **Detailed Catalog Data Models**:
- **Catalog**: This model shows the relationship between database tables related to the catalog subsystem, including catalog entries, catalog groups, and filters.
- **Product Attributes**: Detailed information about product attributes, attribute dictionaries, and rule-based sales categories.
- **Merchandising Associations**: Relationships between database tables containing information about merchandising associations

3. **Data Catalog Templates**:
- Modern data catalogs often include metadata such as technical metadata (database schemas, mappings), business metadata (glossary terms, data governance), operational metadata (run-time stats, log information), and usage metadata (user ratings, comments)

4. **ServiceNow Catalog Data Models**:
- ServiceNow provides extensive documentation on their catalog and catalog items, detailing how to organize and manage different catalog items within their system. This can include attributes like item name, description, price, category, and associated workflows

These resources should help you design a robust data model tailored to your catalog items, ensuring it can handle various aspects of product management, from basic item details to complex relationships and metadata.

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Thanks,

Amitoj Wadhera