Create a new collaboration context

How you create collaboration contexts depends on the method you use to build your collaboration context structure.

• If you use a top down method:

  Choose File→New→Collaboration Context. 
  Teamcenter displays the New Collaboration Context dialog box.
  
  
  Choose a collaboration context type from the list.
  
   
    Your administrator can create additional types as necessary with the Business Modeler IDE administration application.
   
   
    Teamcenter places the types of collaboration context you previously created in the Most Recently Used list.
   
  
  
  
  (Optional) Select Open on Create. 
  If you select this option, Teamcenter opens the new collaboration context in the application directly after creation.
  Tip 
   If you do not select this option, you can find the new collaboration context in the Newstuff folder in My Teamcenter.
  
  
  
  Click Next.
  
  
  Type a name in the Name box.
  Mandatory parameters are marked by a red asterisk.
  
  
  (Optional) Type a description of the collaboration context.
  
  
  Click Finish.
  Note 
   You can create a collaboration context in Multi-Structure Manager, Manufacturing Process Planner, Part Planner, Multi-BOM Management, and My Teamcenter.
  

  If you selected Open on create, Teamcenter displays the context as a top-level line. If a collaboration context was previously open, Teamcenter closes it and loads the new collaboration context.Teamcenter always stores the new collaboration context in the Newstuff folder in My Teamcenter.

• If you use a bottom-up approach to creating collaboration contexts, you can also create a new collaboration context that contains an existing structure context.

  Select the structure context in the collaboration pane.
  
  
  Choose File→Save as→Save as New Collaboration Context.
  For more information, see *Save objects as collaboration contexts*.