Context

Contexts are business domains like marketing, sales, product, customer success etc.

Contexts allow creating business definitions specific to a business context like marketing / sales / product etc. For example, the definition of "active user" can differ between the product team and the marketing team - contexts make it possible to have different feature definitions for different contexts.

Types of contexts

There are two types of contexts:

• shared context (default)

• custom context

shared (the default context)

shared is the context that Lynk comes with out of the box.

Custom context

Creating a custom context is done via settings > account > contexts on the Studio. Only admins can create and manage contexts.

Example for "marketing" as a custom context

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Using contexts

Entities

Entities are being created on the shared context and available on all contexts.

Features

Features are context specific;

• Unless explicitly created on a custom context, features will be created on the shared context.

• Features on the shared context are shared across all contexts, unless there is a feature with the same name on a custom context.

The below table shows what would be the result when consuming a feature that was defined on different contexts:

Defined on	Consumed from	Result
shared only	shared	shared definition
shared only	custom	shared definition
custom only	shared	feature not found (error)
custom only	custom	custom definition
both shared and custom	shared	shared definition
both shared and custom	custom	custom definition

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Contexts in project structure

Looking at the project folders, once created a new context via the Studio, a new folder will appear with the new context name, next to the shared folder. New features that will be added to this context will be added to the relevant entity under that folder.