Lay out the document hierarchy that will hold your data

Documents come in two kinds: containers, which hold child documents, and items. Northwind's domain gives you the container layout directly — one container per entity type (order line items live inside their order documents):

https://localhost:4443/
├── categories/
├── customers/
├── employees/
├── orders/
├── products/
├── regions/
├── shippers/
├── suppliers/
└── territories/

On the root document, click the Create dropdown and select Container. Enter Categories as the title, replace the generated relative URI with categories using the dropdown in the top-right corner of the form, and save. The Create documents guide walks through the form in detail.

What you now see

The root document now lists the containers as its children, and each container URL resolves to an (empty) listing page. The URL space of your app is its information architecture.

Root document children listing with the nine containers

How this works

Next: Model