Alternate organization hierarchies

You can group projects into alternate hierarchies as needed for individual applications or customers. Project attributes with Organization as the data source are used to indicate an alternate organization node from the OBS are associated to a project for restructuring the OBS.

In its current form, the OBS in InEight Platform is a fixed structure that is completely defined by each customer. Because each branch and level have no defined context within the system, it is not possible to automatically redefine the structure or pivot projects based on specific parameters.

In the OBS, each project is specifically assigned to a node within the hierarchy. A project can be reassigned to a different organization, but each change must be performed manually or through the Project_Import API, and cannot be done as part of application functionality.

The Alternate Organization Parent feature allows you to define one or more alternate assignment options at the account level and to give each option a specific name. These options appear as attributes of all Projects where an alternate organization node from the OBS can be selected. For example, you can define an alternate assignment option called Region. Within all projects, the Region option shows and an alternate node from the existing OBS can be selected.

Within InEight cloud applications, each user defined alternate assignment option can be surfaced and used to redefine the existing OBS based on the organization selected for that option in all projects. As an example, if you choose to redefine the OBS by region, the entire OBS will be redrawn and all projects will show under the organization node that they were associated in the alternate assignment of Region.