# Decoration

object type

A decoration — the ONE purposed, localized, ordered carrier for consumer-facing content, ATTACHED to an owning construct (the decoration carries the attachment; owner records never churn). Purpose comes from the canned registry (text-kind live; MEDIA-kind purposes are refused until the blob mechanics land); locale is canonical BCP-47 (the org-default-locale floor is a resolution-time read rule, later slice); ordinal orders same-purpose content (lower = more important). Decorations are freely doomable (nothing references them); the OWNER doom is blocked by attached non-doomed decorations. inactive = draft/unpublished (content staging).

## Fields

| Field | Type | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | [ID](/types/#scalars) `ID!` | The record’s id — a UUID the platform assigned when the record was created; every reference to this record uses it. |
| `sysId` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The group-scoped human-facing system id (DC-…). |
| `type` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The kind of record — always `Decoration` here. |
| `caption` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The record’s display name — what people see it called. |
| `status` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The FSM state: active \| inactive \| doomed. |
| `parentId` | [ID](/types/#scalars) `ID!` | The parent org group; for a Decoration parentId === rootId. |
| `rootId` | [ID](/types/#scalars) `ID!` | The org-group family root. |
| `createdAt` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | When the record was created, as a UTC timestamp. |
| `updatedAt` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | When the record last changed, as a UTC timestamp. |
| `revisionNum` | [Int](/types/#scalars) `Int!` | How many times this record has been edited; the first save is 0. |
| `revision` | [ID](/types/#scalars) `ID!` | The OCC revision token — supply it on every mutation of this record; rotates on every write. |
| `refCaptions` | [RefCaption](/types/RefCaption/) `[RefCaption!]!` | The server-composed captions of this record's declared references (the referenced-caption rule) — one row per referenced id; see RefCaption. |
| `purpose` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The canned purpose key. Server-validated (the hyphenated canned keys are not enum-safe); IMMUTABLE after birth. |
| `locale` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The content locale — canonical BCP-47 core shape (en, en-US, fr-CA, zh-Hans-CN); case-canonical, STRICT. Mutable. |
| `ordinal` | [Int](/types/#scalars) `Int!` | The importance position among same-(owner,purpose,locale) decorations. Always present (defaults to 0 at create); mutable. |
| `text` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The inline text content. Mutable, replace-only. |
| `attachedToType` | [AttachableType](/types/AttachableType/) `AttachableType!` | The owning construct type. IMMUTABLE after birth. |
| `attachedToId` | [ID](/types/#scalars) `ID!` | The owning construct id. IMMUTABLE after birth (moving content = recreate). |
| `code` | [String](/types/#scalars) | Optional mutable merchant reference code; uniqueness NOT enforced (the code stance). |

## Used by

- [createDecoration](/reference/decoration/createDecoration/)
- [deactivateDecoration](/reference/decoration/deactivateDecoration/)
- [decoration](/reference/decoration/decoration/)
- [doomDecoration](/reference/decoration/doomDecoration/)
- [reactivateDecoration](/reference/decoration/reactivateDecoration/)
- [updateDecoration](/reference/decoration/updateDecoration/)