Designing process structure > Managing collaboration contexts > Overview of creating a collaboration context
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. 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.
Choose Save as New Collaboration Context from the Collaboration Context Tree view menu.
Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.pmphelp/create_cc · retrieved 2026-07-11