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Learn about the hierarchy of entities and the key concepts of Contentstack.
Organization
Organization acts as a parent entity that encapsulates stacks (and all the resources stored within), belonging to the same company or group making project management unbelievably easy.
Learn more about Organizations
Stack
A stack is a container that holds all the content (entries) and assets related to a site. It also serves as a collaboration space where multiple users can work together to create, edit, approve and publish content.
Content type
Content type lets you define the structure or blueprint of a page or a section of your digital property. It helps you lay the foundation of your content.
Learn more about Content Types
Entry
An entry is the actual piece of content created using one of the defined content types. To create an entry, content managers simply fill data in the fields of a content type.
Asset
Assets refer to all the media files (images, videos, PDFs, audio files, and so on) uploaded to Contentstack. These files can be used in multiple entries.
Roles
A collection of permissions that are applicable to all the users is called a Role. Using Roles, stack Owners or Admins can set specific permissions to each user.
Users
A user is any member who is able to access a particular stack in an organization.
Environment
A publishing environment corresponds to one or more deployment servers or a content delivery destination where the entries need to be published.
Language
Contentstack offers multilingual support, which allows you to create entries in any language of your choice. Localization is the process of making an entry available in another language.
Webhooks
In Contentstack, a user-defined HTTP callback is called a Webhook. It is an automated system that sends real-time information to third-party apps or services.
Extensions
Contentstack provides its users with pre-built, ready to use, extensions to be used in content types. These can be selected from the Extensions list.
Releases
Releases are a set of entries and assets that can be deployed(published or unpublished) all at once in a specific environment.
Workflows
An order of steps that define the roadmap in a process is called as a Workflow in Contentstack.
Tokens
Contentstack has Access Tokens, Delivery Tokens, Management Tokens, and Authtokens. These tokens are required to authorize API calls.
Publish queue
An entry or asset that a Content Manager sends for publishing or unpublishing, the system puts the action into a publish queue. The stack user can view the status of these tasks in the Publish queue section.
Learn more about Publish queue
Audit logs
All events and activities that take place in a particular stack are recorded and displayed in the Audit log. This helps the user keep a track of all items that are published, updated, deleted and the current status of the existing content.
Trash
All deleted items in Contentstack for a particular stack are stored in the Trash for a limited period of time.
