• Site – The site context is the top-level context. There can be only one site context.

• Organization – Organization contexts are always children of the site context. There is always at least one organization context required to have an operational Windchill solution.

• Application – Application contexts are always children of an organization context. There are four types of application contexts:

◦ Product

◦ Library

◦ Project

◦ Program

• You decide whether an application context is public or private. This option is only available when you are not using a shared team.

◦ Create policies in the organization context /Default domain that apply to all public child contexts and contexts using a shared team.

◦ Create policies in the /Default/Project and /Default/PDM domains that apply to solution-specific child contexts.

◦ Create policies in the /Private domain that apply to all private child contexts; however, PTC recommends that no additional access control rules be created within this domain as those policies would be inherited by all private contexts. If additional policies are required for a given private context, create the policies using a domain in the child context.

• For application contexts created with shared teams, the default behavior is that the /Default domain in the contexts inherits access control rules from the shared team domain in the organization context where the shared team was created. The shared team domain has the same name as the shared team and is a child of the /Default domain in the organization context. This configuration allows an administrator to:

◦ Create policies in the organization context shared team domain that apply to all child contexts that use that shared team.

◦ Create policies in the Private domain that apply to all private child contexts; however, PTC recommends that no additional access control rules be created within this domain as those policies would be inherited by all private contexts. If additional policies are required for a given private context, create policies using a domain in the child context.

• For project contexts, you decide whether or not data can be shared to other contexts.

• For an organization context in Windchill solutions including projects and programs, you decide whether the project creators group is auto-populated with members of the organization. The project and program creators groups determine who can create projects and programs.

• For an application context, edit the context using the edit context icon or the Edit action from the context information page. First, navigate to the context in the Navigator, and then selecting the specific product, library, project, or program that you want to edit.