---
alias: resourcedatacollectioncontext-st
description: "Defines data collection contexts for resources, specifying related attributes and relationships"
---

# ResourceDataCollectionContext

## Description

Used to resolve the DataCollection for the specific Resource context

## Fields

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

| Field | Description | Key | Mandatory | Comments |
| --- | ----- | -- | -- | ---- |
| **Resource** | Resource Reference | Yes | No | |
| **ResourceType** | ResourceType Name | Yes | No | not to be confused with the *Type* property of the **Resource** |
| **Model** | Model Name | Yes | No | |
| **StateTransition** | StateTransition Name | Yes | Yes | Values are taken from the [ResourceChartStateTransitions](../lookup-tables/resourcechartstatetransitions.md) lookup table.|
| **DataCollection** | DataCollection Reference | No | Yes | |
| **DataCollectionLimitSet** | DataCollectionLimitSet Reference | No | No | if selected, must be valid for the selected **Data Collection**|

Table: ResourceDataCollectionContext fields

!!! 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.

## Precedence Keys

The search precedence rules are the following:

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