Organizational Units

Managing organizational units

Delegation trees can be created and organized so as to allow different levels of delegated administration.

For instance, you can set up delegations:

In these two examples, administrators and target populations can be set for each delegation level.

Creation

• Click the "Create Organizational Unit" button to open a creation window:
  
• Enter the name for organizational unit you want to create and, if appropriate, a parent to create a new tree branch.
• Click "Create" to apply.

Deletion

In the Organizational Units page:

• Select the unit(s) you want to delete by checking the appropriate box(es)
• Click the "Delete" button at the top of the list
• Confirm

Assigning a member to a delegation

By default, a user always is a member of the Root organizational unit. For a user to be a member of a child organizational unit, go to the user's administration page:

• in the General tab, fill in the "Member of delegation" field using autocomplete which suggests existing units:
  

• Save to apply the changes.

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Delegating administration rights

To a user

To assign a unit's administration rights to a user, go the user's administration page, and in the "General" tab, go to the "Roles" section:

This section shows:

• Top: the rights assigned to the user for each organizational unit – as text
• Left hand side (gray background): the list of organizational units concerned.
• Right hand side: the rights for the unit currently selected in the list.
  The rights inherited from a parent organizational unit or a group are grayed out, they can be deleted for this organizational unit only.

To add administration rights for an organizational unit that isn't included in the list:

1. Click the  button at the top of the section and search for the unit using autocomplete:
   
2. Select the unit and confirm
3. The organizational unit is then added to the list of delegations:
   
4. Check the appropriate rights (they are added to the text list at the top as you check them):
   

5. Save to apply the changes.

To a group

To assign rights to a group of users, go to the group's management page > Roles tab:

The rights assigned here will be applied to all group members and throughout the domain they belong to.