Entities and Attributes of Content Management System

1. User: Represents user interacting with the System

• UserID (Primary Key): Unique identifier for each user.
• Username: Username for login.
• Password: Password for login (hashed for security).
• Email: Email address of the user.
• RoleID (Foreign Key): Reference to the role of the user.

2. Role: Define access levels within the system

• RoleID (Primary Key): Unique identifier for each role.
• RoleName: Name of the role (e.g., admin, editor, contributor).

3. Content: Represents various managed contents or articles

• ContentID (Primary Key): Unique identifier for each content.
• Title: Title of the content.
• Body: Main text or body of the content.
• Type: Type or category of the content.
• AuthorID (Foreign Key): Reference to the author of the content.
• CreatedDate: Date and time when the content was created.
• LastModifiedDate: Date and time when the content was last modified.

4. Media: Represents upload files

• MediaID (Primary Key): Unique identifier for each media.
• FileName: Name of the file.
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• FileType: Type of the file (e.g., image, video).
• FilePath: Path to the location of the file.
• UploadedBy (Foreign Key): Reference to the user who uploaded the media.
• UploadDate: Date and time when the media was uploaded.

In the area of dynamic digital content management, an efficient Content Management System (CMS) serves as the backbone for efficient organization, publication, and retrieval of content. For the well-structured CMS which is achieved through the Entity–Relationship (ER) diagram, a powerful visual representation of the systems database design.

In this article, we’ll learn the art of designing ER diagrams for Content Management Systems along with their entities, attributes also relationships between them.