Multi-Structure Manager objects

A collaboration context may be considered as a project folder that contains all the information associated with a project; it may contain references to objects in Teamcenter, including structure contexts. It is persistent and allows data to be shared by different applications, for example, Teamcenter and an external application. It consists of one or more structure contexts, each of which may have a different configuration. The children of a configuration are defined by a configuration context.

A structure context is a configurable structure that consists of one or more root objects sharing the same configuration. For example, it may be one or more BOMs or assembly structures and their configurations. In this example, each BOM or assembly may be assigned to a different group or vendor to manage and build.

The configuration of the structure context is defined by a configuration context. The structure objects may have occurrence groups, items, and item revisions. The configuration context stores a set of rules that determines the configuration of a collaboration context and the entire structure within a structure context. The rule set may include revision or variant rules.

A composition is a structure that shows the relationship between other structures for modeling a scenario or manufacturing process. Each structure may have a different configuration. The type of the structure context determines if it is a composition.