ManufacturingKnowledge

Working with collaboration contexts

Create a structure context

Procedure

  1. Choose File→New Structure Context.

Note You can create a structure context in My Teamcenter by clicking File→New→Structure Context to open the New Structure Context dialog box.

Teamcenter displays the New Structure Context dialog box.

  1. Select a structure context type from the list.Teamcenter places the types of structure context you previously created in the Most Recently Used list.

  2. Click Next.

  3. Type a name in the Name box.Mandatory parameters are marked by a red asterisk.

  4. (Optional) Type a description of the collaboration context.

  5. Choose a configuration context:

Click Configuration Context .

Teamcenter displays the Find Configuration Context by Name dialog box.

Type the name or part of the name of the configuration context in the Name box.

Click Find.

Teamcenter displays the contexts matching the name criteria in the table.

Double-click a context in the results table.

Teamcenter closes the dialog box and displays the name of the context in the New Structure Context dialog box.

  1. Click Finish.

The new structure context appears as a line in the BOM under the current collaboration context. If you did not select a configuration context in the previous step, Teamcenter creates a structure context with the system's default configuration, which is generally:

The default revision rule, typically Latest Working.

No variant rule.

Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.plm00043/create_sc · retrieved 2026-07-11