Contexts

Contexts organise a hive into a tree. Every context has its own dashboard, its own feed, its own apps — and its own audience, decided by the groups active on it.

Create a context

Only a hive admin can create contexts — the Create new button appears on the context dashboard when you have admin rights there.

1. Open the context you want to create inside (or the hive root).
2. In the Contexts inside card, choose Create new.
3. Optionally import and crop a cover image.
4. Name it, add a description, then Create. The new context opens automatically.

A new context inherits the hive's Admin group, so admins can immediately manage it. Activate member groups to open it to more people.

The context dashboard

Opening a context shows:

• Description & cover — what this place is for.
• Contexts inside — the sub-contexts you can see.
• Active groups — who can see this context. Admins activate and deactivate groups here; see Groups.
• Apps — the built-in apps plus any custom apps installed here; see Built-in apps.
• People — who is effectively in this context, via its active groups.

The docked message panel beside the dashboard shows the feed for this context and everything below it — messages posted deeper in the tree surface here too, and you can filter them (see Messages).

Moving around

The breadcrumb in the top bar shows the path from the hive root to where you are; Go UP climbs one level. The icon rail's Contexts item lists the current context's subtree.

Design tip: a context is a place, not a topic label. If a set of information has its own audience or its own lifecycle — a project, a department, a client — it deserves its own context.