The administration of a Windchill solution that includes projects and programs can be broken into the following main categories:

User interaction with Windchill is made more efficient by establishing the context within which the users work. Projects, programs, and organizations are examples of unique contexts.

For example, if a user entering a Windchill solution navigates to a folder within the Bulldozer Design project and creates a new document, that document is managed in the context of the Bulldozer Design project. Persons with access to the Bulldozer Design project may automatically have the right to see and modify the new document. In this way, the context provides the framework from which user actions are executed.

Each context can be accessed from a corresponding location in the Navigator:

The information stored in site, organization, project, and program contexts has the following hierarchy:

The framework of default templates set at the site context is used in the organization context unless it is specifically overridden at the organization level. Similarly, the framework set at both the site and organization context levels is used at the project context level and at the program context level, unless it has been overridden at the lower level. Your Windchill solution provides a set of out-of-the-box context templates to establish the administrative framework. You can also create new context templates and edit existing context templates. For more information, see Working With Context Templates.

The user who creates a project becomes the project manager for that project. The user who creates a program becomes the program manager for that program. Project and program managers have administrative privileges for the specific project or program that they have created. They can later choose to assign additional users to the project manager or program manager role, giving these additional users administrative privileges for that project or program. The original project or program creator can also later choose to delegate the project or program manager role to another user completely, and relinquish their project or program manager role. For more information see About Projects and Programs.

The following administrative topics are covered in this help:

For more information about managing projects and programs, see About Projects and Programs, and the Understanding Projects and Programs administration reference.