Managing Organization Structures¶

This article introduces how OU administrators manage organization structures in the Admin Console of Application Portal.

Note

The management tasks that sub-administrators can perform are subject to the authorization from OU administrators. For more information, contact your OU administrator.

Prerequisites¶

Before you start, make sure that you have the permission to manage organization structures. For more information about the permission to manage organization structures, contact your OU administrator.

Creating an Organization Structure¶

Select Organization Structure from the left navigation pane of the Admin Console.
Select New Organization Structure, enter the name of the organization structure on the popup window and select Submit.

Managing Organization Structure Nodes¶

Nodes are the basic units of an organization structure, demonstrating the hierarchical relationships in the organization structure. An organization structure consists of a root node and other nodes that connected to the root node directly or indirectly.

Adding a Node¶

Select Organization Structure from the left navigation pane of the Admin Console.
Select the Manage of the target organization structure from the organization structure list.
Hover over the ellipsis (…) of a node and select Add Child Node.
Enter the node name on the popup window and select Submit.

Note

The node name should be different to the name of the parent node and the nodes under the same parent node.

Sorting the Order of Nodes¶

The order of organization structure nodes affects the display order of resources or nodes in related applications. Sort the order of nodes under the same parent node by the following steps:

Select Organization Structure from the left navigation pane of the Admin Console.
Select the Manage of the target organization structure from the organization structure list.
Select Sort Order.
Drag the tag of organization structure nodes to sort the order of the nodes under the same parent node on the popup window.
Select Submit.

Assigning Resources to Nodes¶

Select Organization Structure from the left navigation pane of the Admin Console.
Select the Manage of the target organization structure from the organization structure list.
Hover over the ellipsis (…) of a node and select Manage Resource.
In the popup window, select Add Resource.
Select the target resources on the left and select Submit.

Note

A resource can only be assigned to one node in an organization structure.

After assigning resources to an organization structure node, you can assign the organization node to OU users, so that the users can get access to the information of the resources via applications. For more information on assigning organization structure nodes to OU users, see Assigning Organization Structure Nodes to a User.

Associating Resources¶

Associate resources by the following steps to give a node the specified business meaning:

Select Organization Structure from the left navigation pane of the Admin Console.
Select the Manage of the target organization structure from the organization structure list.
Hover over the ellipsis (…) of a node and select Associate Resource.
Select the resource to associate and select Submit in the popup window.

Adding a Tag¶

When developing applications, developers can acquire the information of organization structure nodes by the tags on the nodes. Add tags to an organization structure nodes by the following steps:

Select Organization Structure from the left navigation pane of the Admin Console.
Select the Manage of the target organization structure from the organization structure list.
Hover over the ellipsis (…) of a node and select Add Tag.
Enter the key and value of the new tag on the popup window and select OK.

You can view the tags of an organization structure node on the Tag tab of the right panel.

Renaming a Node¶

Select Organization Structure from the left navigation pane of the Admin Console.
Select the Manage of the target organization structure from the organization structure list.
Hover over the ellipsis (…) of a node and select Rename.
Enter the new name of the node on the popup window and select OK.

Deleting a Node¶

Select Organization Structure from the left navigation pane of the Admin Console.
Select the Manage of the target organization structure from the organization structure list.
Hover over the ellipsis (…) of a node and select Delete.
Select OK on the popup window.

Enabling Automatic Resource Authorization¶

By default, users can only access to the resources of the nodes assigned to the users, and cannot access to the resources assigned to the child nodes of the assigned nodes. Enable automatic resource authorization by the following steps to automatically grant the access permission of the resources in the child nodes to the users in the parent nodes:

Select Organization Structure from the left navigation pane of the Admin Console.
Under the Automatic Resource Authorization column, turn on the toggle of the target organization structure to enable automatic resource authorization, so that the users in the organization structure can get access to the resources in the child nodes.

Deleting an Organization Structure¶

Select Organization Structure from the left navigation pane of the Admin Console.
Select the Delete of the target organization structure from the organization structure list.
Select OK on the popup window.