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alias: resourcechartcontext-st
description: "Defines a context for charts, linking resources, types, and transitions"
---

# ResourceChartContext

## Description

Used to resolve the Chart for specific Resource context

## Fields

The **ResourceChartContext** table has the following fields:

| Field | Description | Key | Mandatory | Comments |
| --- | ----- | -- | -- | ---- |
| **Resource** | Resource Reference | Yes | No | |
| **ResourceType** | Resource Type Name | Yes | No |not to be confused with the *Type* property of the **Resource** |
| **Model** | resource Model Name | Yes | No | |
| **StateTransition** | StateTransition Name | Yes | Yes | Values are taken from the [ResourceChartStateTransitions](../lookup-tables/resourcechartstatetransitions.md) lookup table.|
| **DisplayMode** | DisplayMode Reference | No | No |:material-pencil-circle:|
| **Chart** | Chart Name Reference | No | Yes | |

Table: ResourceChartContext fields

!!! note
    Possible values for *DisplayMode* are:

    * None - Chart is never displayed
    * DisplayAlways - display Chart always
    * DisplayOnViolationsOnly -  display Chart only when a violation occurs
    * AcknowledgeAlways - display Chart and require acknowledge always
    * AcknowledgeOnViolationsOnly - displays Chart and requires acknowledge on violations only

!!! info
    Even though **Resource**, *Resource Type* and *Model* are listed as optional, one of them and only one of them must be defined for each data collection context row.

!!! info
    There can be multiple **Charts** per context, but it is not possible to duplicate the same **Chart** for the same context.

## Precedence Keys

The search precedence rules are the following:

1. Resource, StateTransition
2. ResourceType, StateTransition
3. Model, StateTransition