Corporate hierarchies

You can categorize a Person document in the IBM® Domino® Directory by a corporate hierarchy. When an IBM® Notes® user selects a name from a Domino® Directory, the user can view the list of names by the assigned Corporate Hierarchy.

You can categorize user names in any way you want in a corporate hierarchy. For example, you might categorize users by company division:

• Research and development
  • Burke, Kathy
  • Murphy, Bob

You can assign a user to a subcategory nested up to six levels deep within a top-level category. In the following example, the corporate hierarchy is structured so that the users Phyllis Spera and Judy Kaplan are contained within subdivisions that are nested one level deep within two top-level company divisions, Marketing, and Research and Development.

• Marketing
  • Design
    • Spera, Phyllis
  • Planning
    • Kaplan, Judy

You can assign a user to up to four independent corporate hierarchies, each with its own multiple levels of structure. For example, in addition to categorizing a user by company division, you could also categorize the user by geographic location:

• Boston
  • Spera, Phyllis

• Marketing
  • Design
    • Spera, Phyllis