This section describes how Windchill domains and policies are defined. A domain is an administrative area that defines a set of administrative policies, such as access control, indexing, and notification. Objects associated with a Windchill domain are subject to its policies.

A policy is a collection of rules designed for various types of objects associated with a domain. For example, an indexing policy consists of rules that determine the types of objects for which metadata should be entered into specified collections, when the objects belong to the domain.

Before creating a context in your Windchill solution, you should determine which domains are needed and use a template that creates the domains and the access control policies for those domains when you create the context. For details on what domains and policies are included in the out-of-the-box templates, see the following chapters:

For the details on creating additional context templates, see Context Templates.

After a context is created, you can use the Policy Administration utility to administer the domains in the context.

The following sections provide information about installed domains and how to use the Policy Administration utility to administer the domains.