With hierarchical administration, contexts inherit administrative items from parent contexts (or, in the case of policies, from parent domains). Administration performed at the level of a parent context is applicable to all of its child contexts. Except for policies, a child context can choose to override the administrative items of its parent contexts. For policies, rules from all parent domains are merged with the rules in a current domain to form the policy for the current domain. For more information about policies, see Administering Domains and Policies on page 85

In general, always think of performing administration duties from within a context, as follows:

•Site administrators can create, modify, delete, and view administrative items in the site context.

•Organization administrators can create, modify, delete, and view administrative items in the given organization context. They can generally view and override administrative items defined in the site context.

•Application context managers can create, modify, delete, and view administrative items in the given application context. They can generally view and override administrative items defined in the parent organization context and the site context.

•Site and organization administrators can administer child contexts; however, they do so by going into the child context and performing their administrative duties there.

Note

Windchill users generally perform their activities within an application context, rather than in an organization or site context.

Non-administrative Windchill users generally do not create, modify, or delete administrative items; however, they may have visibility to, and are affected by, the following administrative items:

•The administrative items that are defined in a given application context.

•The administrative items that are defined in the parent organization and site contexts, but not overridden in the application context.

Context Administrative Items

Each context can be populated with the following types of administrative items:

•Context configuration

•Context structure

•Context participation