The data model view renders a set of domain types as a Mermaid class diagram — classes with their properties, and relationship arrows between types a property references — with clickable nodes that drill into a per-type detail page (properties table, inherited vs declared, derived types). The same view backs two places:

the DataModel layout area for a data domain, and
a node type's $Model area, which shows the data model of that type's instances as a diagram with a toggle to the JSON schema and back.

The Mermaid ⇄ JSON toggle

On a node type's $Model area (and in the Overview's Data model section), the view is a Tabs control:

Diagram — the Mermaid class diagram of the instance types.
JSON — the JSON schema of the content type.

When only one representation is available (no schema, or no diagrammable types), it renders that one bare without tabs.

For a dynamically-compiled node type, the instance model is resolved passively — from the type's latest published assembly via the assembly store — so opening $Model never triggers a compile. Static types resolve from their registered hub configuration.

Reusable cores

Two public helpers on DataModelLayoutArea produce the markdown, parameterized by a linkBase so the same code serves /DataModel and /{nodeType}/$Model:

// Mermaid classDiagram for an explicit set of types.
string diagram = DataModelLayoutArea.BuildMermaidDiagram(
    seedTypes,         // the types to seed each diagram group with
    allDomainTypes,    // lookup used to resolve property targets / derived types
    linkBase: "/MyNode/$Model");   // href prefix for clickable class nodes

// Per-type detail page (properties table + derived types), links under linkBase.
UiControl detail = DataModelLayoutArea.RenderTypeDetails(typeDef, allDomainTypes, "/MyNode/$Model");

The diagram seeds from the given types and grows the group to include the domain types reached through their properties, so a single seed type pulls in the types it references. Reference properties become relationship arrows labelled by the property name; each class gets a click … href into the detail view under linkBase.

Mermaid class diagrams in markdown

Class diagrams use characters that are also HTML syntax — the stereotype markers <<enumeration>> / <<interface>> and the inheritance arrow <|--. When a ```mermaid block is rendered, the diagram body is HTML-escaped into its <div class='mermaid'> host, so those < characters survive the HTML round-trip (the browser and the server-side parser decode the entities back to the literal mermaid source before Mermaid reads them). Authoring a diagram in markdown therefore needs no special treatment — write normal Mermaid:

```mermaid
classDiagram
    class Status {
        <<enumeration>>
        Draft
        Published
    }
    Document <|-- Article
    Document --> Status : status
```

Writing the diagram body unescaped was a real defect: the browser parsed <enumeration> as a tag and the stereotype line vanished, so every diagram with a stereotype or inheritance arrow failed to render. The renderer now escapes the body and decodes it back on the way to Mermaid.

The Mermaid ⇄ JSON toggle

Reusable cores

Mermaid class diagrams in markdown

See Also