# General Translation Platform: Context Groups
URL: https://generaltranslation.com/en-GB/docs/platform/context.mdx
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title: Context Groups
description: Organise glossary and directives into shareable groups
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Context groups define the terminology and instructions used when AI generates translations. Each group contains a [glossary](/docs/platform/context/glossary) and [directives](/docs/platform/context/directives). Groups exist within an organisation and can be assigned to one or more projects.

## Organisation vs project scope

| Scope                          | What you see                           | What you can do                                                                  |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Organisation -> Context** | The full group library                 | Create, rename, delete, import, export, and edit groups                          |
| **Project -> Context**      | Groups assigned to the current project | Assign groups, create a new assigned group, set priority, and edit group content |

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  **Note:** Editing a group from a project updates the shared organisation-level group. If that group is assigned to other projects, your changes apply there too.
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## Creating a group

At the organisation level:

1. Open **Context** in the org sidebar
2. Click **Create group**
3. Enter a name and confirm

From a project:

1. Open **Context** in the project sidebar
2. Click **Create group**
3. Enter a name and confirm

When you create a group from a project, the group is created in the organisation and assigned to the current project.

## Assigning groups to a project

Projects do not automatically inherit every organisation group.

1. Open **Context** in the project sidebar
2. Click **Assign existing groups**
3. Select one or more groups from the org library
4. Click **Assign**

Assigned groups apply their glossary and directives whenever the project is translated, retranslated, or processed by Locadex.

## Priority

When a project has multiple assigned groups, priority determines which guidance takes precedence when groups overlap.

* The top group has the highest priority
* Reorder groups from the project&#39;s Context page
* If the same glossary term appears in multiple groups, the higher-priority group is used
* Newly generated or imported terms are saved to the highest-priority group

## Import and export

Use import and export to move context between tools or seed a group from an existing terminology list.

* **Import** fills empty glossary and directive fields from a supported file
* **Export** downloads the group&#39;s glossary and directives

## How context affects translations

Context is applied whenever the AI generates translations, including initial translation, [retranslation](/docs/platform/translations/retranslate), [Apply glossary](/docs/platform/context/apply-glossary), and Locadex processing.

Changes to context do not automatically rewrite every existing translation. Use Retranslate or Apply glossary to propagate changes into existing files.

## Next steps

* [Glossary](/docs/platform/context/glossary)
* [Directives](/docs/platform/context/directives)
* [Apply glossary](/docs/platform/context/apply-glossary)