SF PLT Org Chart
SF PLT Org Chart
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Organization charts provide hierarchical views of the reporting relationships of people or positions in your
organization.
SAP SuccessFactors offers four types of organization charts: Company Org Chart, Succession Org Chart, Position
Org Chart, and Calibration Org Chart.
Company Org Chart The Company Org Chart is the most It can display the direct and matrix
basic and widely used type. It offers a manager reporting relationships of the
hierarchical view of the organization. users.
You can navigate up and down the
company hierarchy.
Succession Org Chart The Succession Org Chart is a You can search for positions or people
hierarchical view of the reporting and then navigate through the position
relationships of people and positions hierarchy, reviewing succession plans for
in your organization. The Succession the reporting line you selected.
Org Chart is the primary interface for Key positions are clearly marked,
managing succession plans from the making it easier for you to manage your
perspective of your organization. It has succession strategy.
a configurable layout that allows you
The information you see for people and
to show and update succession plans
positions on the Succession Org Chart
according to the way your organization
is controlled by your various role-based
works.
permissions and target populations,
ensuring sensitive information remains
protected.
Position Org Chart As an HR administrator responsible for You can view positions and the
Position Management, you can use the
people who occupy them, see how
Position Org Chart as your go-to point
all the positions relate to each other,
for viewing and maintaining the position
hierarchy at your company. and, depending on your role-based
permissions, do the following:
• Create positions.
• Edit positions.
• Change position associations (that
is, reassign them to other
positions).
• Deactivate positions.
• View positions and position details
in the past and future.
• Create a job requisition for a
position.
• Start an employee hiring process.
Calibration Org Chart As an HR administrator responsible You can search for session owners,
for creating calibration sessions, you participants, and subjects.
can use the Calibration Org Chart to
search for and select session owners, You can see whether an employee is
participants, and subjects. an owner participant, a participant, or a
subject in the Calibration Org Chart.
If an employee is a participant or a
subject, you can click Take Action to add
the employee to participants or subjects.
You can also exclude the employee from
the calibration session.
Note
• For more information about the Succession Org Chart, see Succession: Implementation and
Administration.
• For more information about the Position Organization Chart, see Employee Central Position Management.
• For more information about the Calibration Org Chart, see Calibration.
Company Organization Chart is a hierarchical view of the reporting relationships of people in your organization. It’s
the most basic and widely used type of organization charts that SAP SuccessFactors offers.
Supported Features
• It displays the direct and matrix manager reporting relationships. It can display up to 1,000 reports.
Note
The Company Organization Chart doesn’t show HR relationships. Users can see their managers and matrix
managers, but not their HR managers.
• Users can navigate up in the hierarchy by clicking the Up One Level button. The button is above the topmost
node being displayed.
• Users can navigate down the hierarchy by clicking on the team size number. The team size is at the bottom of
the organization chart node of any user who has direct or matrix reports.
• If a manager has matrix reports and you’re viewing the organization chart for the manager, the matrix reports
are connected to the matrix manager with dotted lines.
• If an employee has a matrix manager and you’re viewing the organization chart for the employee, you can view
the matrix manager after clicking the +1 matrix manager button.
• Future new hires are shown as the direct reports of managers.
• Users can choose to display direct reports only, matrix reports only, or both.
• You can choose to display contingent workers in the Company Organization Chart.
• Users can export the Company Organization Chart and save it as a PDF file or an image.
• Users can print the Company Organization Chart.
• The Company Organization Chart can display more than one language. For example, the Company
Organization Chart can display names in Korean and titles in English.
Related Information
Follow this process to enable and set up the Company Organization Chart.
Limiting Company Organization Chart Access to Succession Org Chart Users [page 9]
If you want to align the access of Company Organization Chart and Succession Org Chart, you can do so by
limiting the Company Organization Chart access to only Succession Org Chart users.
Administrators and users require different sets of role-based permissions to the Company Organization Chart.
Users want to access the Company Organization Chart and search for other users in the orgnaization chart.
Administrators also require access to configuration tools of the Company Organization Chart.
Administrator Permissions
Administrators configure the Company Organization Chart with the Org Chart Configuration admin tool. To
access the admin tool, administrators must have the Org Chart Configuration permission through Administrator
Permissions Manage System Properties Org Chart Configuration .
User Permissions
Learn about the permissions required to use the Company Organization Chart.
User Permissions General User Permission Company This permission gives users access to the Company Info page,
where they can access the Org Chart and Employee Directory.
Info Access
User Permissions General User Permission This permission enables a user to access and navigate the
Company Organization Chart. You can restrict organization
Organization Chart Navigation Permission
chart navigation by setting a target population. Users can only
see the organization chart for people who are in their target
population.
Note
When you grant the permission to users, add the users to
the target population of themselves.
User Permissions General User Permission User This permission grants access to users so they can search
other employees on the Company Organization Chart. You can
Search
define the target population on whom a user can search.
User Permissions Succession Planners Succession Org If the Limit org chart access to succession org chart users.
option is enabled in Provisioning, you must also grant the
Chart Permission
users this permission.
Remember
As a customer, you don't have access to Provisioning.
To complete tasks in Provisioning, contact your
implementation partner or Account Executive. For any
non-implementation tasks, contact Product Support.
Related Information
If you want to show employee photos in the Company Organization Chart, you can enable the feature in Admin
Center.
Prerequisites
As a customer, you don't have access to Provisioning. To complete tasks in Provisioning, contact
your implementation partner or Account Executive. For any non-implementation tasks, contact Product
Support.
Procedure
Results
You can set a limit to the number of matrix reports to be displayed in the Company Organization Chart.
Context
If a matrix or custom manager has matrix or custom reports that exceed this threshold you set, then zero matrix or
custom reports are shown. We don’t truncate the list of matrix or custom reports, we hide them entirely.
Procedure
1. Go to Admin Center Company System and Logo Settings Matrix Report Threshold: This is used to limit
the number of persons displayed in the org chart.
2. Fill in a number.
3. Save your changes.
You've successfully limited the number of matrix reports to be displayed in the Company Organization Chart.
If you want to align the access of Company Organization Chart and Succession Org Chart, you can do so by limiting
the Company Organization Chart access to only Succession Org Chart users.
Prerequisites
Remember
As a customer, you don't have access to Provisioning. To complete tasks in Provisioning, contact your
implementation partner or Account Executive. For any non-implementation tasks, contact Product Support.
Procedure
Results
You've successfully limited Company Organization Chart access to only Succession Org Chart users.
Enable Org Chart for mobile users so that they can browse the company organization chart and search for
colleagues in mobile applications.
Context
As a system administrator, you can enable Org Chart for mobile users. Mobile Org Chart allows users to browse the
basic company organization chart including direct reports, matrix reports, and reporting relationships of contingent
workers. Please note that contingent worker information is only available if you have enabled Employee Central in
your system.
Procedure
1. Go to Admin Center Enable Mobile Features Mobile Specific and enable option Org Chart under Mobile
Features.
2. Optionally, you can enable these options:
Option Description
Disable peer This option allows you to turn off the display of peers in Mobile Org Chart. We recommend that you
display in Org enable the option if you're experiencing performance issues with Mobile Org Chart.
Chart
Disable matrix Enable this option to hide matrix reporting lines (dotted lines) from Mobile Org Chart.
report counting
Tip
In Mobile Org Chart, matrix reports are displayed in dotted lines. However, in the desktop version,
you use the +n Matrix Managers button to expand the matrix managers of an employee.
3. Optionally, you can also hide contingent workers in Mobile Org Chart. For more information about configuring
or hiding contingent workers in Org Chart, see the Related Information section.
Results
Note
After you’ve finished setting up the default Company Organization Chart, consider these other configuration
options to customize your Company Organization Chart.
Showing Customized Name Format in the Company Organization Chart [page 17]
You can use the name format that you have been using in People Profile. For example, you can use formal
name format of first name, middle name, and last name combination. If you use customized name format
in People Profile, you can also use it in the Company Organization Chart.
Hiding Job Title in People Search and Organization Charts [page 17]
Hide the job title information in People Search results and organization charts if you don't want it to be
displayed.
If you've enabled the displaying of photos in the Company Organization Chart, photos are displayed in a square
frame. It can cause the photos to be cropped. Choose to show rectangular photos on the Company Organization
Chart to prevent cropping.
Prerequisites
Remember
As a customer, you don't have access to Provisioning. To complete tasks in Provisioning, contact
your implementation partner or Account Executive. For any non-implementation tasks, contact Product
Support.
Procedure
Results
You can now see portrait photos on the Company Organization Chart.
If an employee has a matrix manager and you're viewing the organization chart for the employee, you can view the
matrix manager after clicking the +1 Matrix Manager link. You can also hide the link.
Prerequisites
Procedure
Three tabs display: Basic org chart, Succession org chart, and Position Organization Chart.
2. Go to the Basic org chart tab.
3. Select the Hide matrix manager info in V12 Org Chart option.
4. Save your changes.
Results
You've successfully hidden the links to matrix managers on the Company Organization Chart.
Prerequisites
You've set "ORG_CHART_DISPLAY" to "TRUE" for custom managers when importing matrix or custom managers.
Procedure
Results
You can now see custom relationships in the Company Organization Chart. Please note that when you search for
a custom manager in the Company Organization Chart, his or her custom reports display. However, if you search
directly for a custom report, his or her custom manager doesn't display in the Company Organization Chart.
If an employee has multiple employments, for example, a global assignment or concurrent employment, the
primary employment is displayed in Org Chart by default. To display active secondary employments, follow the
instructions in this task.
Procedure
Results
You can now view the secondary employment information in Org Chart.
Prerequisites
Procedure
Note
If contingent workers are hidden on the Company Organization Chart, the total number of direct reports of
a manager doesn’t include the contingent workers.
Results
You have successfully hidden contingent workers from the Company Organization Chart.
You can use the name format that you have been using in People Profile. For example, you can use formal name
format of first name, middle name, and last name combination. If you use customized name format in People
Profile, you can also use it in the Company Organization Chart.
Prerequisites
Procedure
Results
You've successfully adopted the name format of People Profile in the Company Organization Chart.
Hide the job title information in People Search results and organization charts if you don't want it to be displayed.
Prerequisites
You have the Administrator Manage System Properties Company System and Logo Settings permission.
You can use option Hide job title in People Search and org charts (Company Org Chart, Calibration Org Chart, and
Succession Org Chart) under Admin Center Company System and Logo Settings to hide job title information
for People Search and Organization Charts.
Note
Procedure
Results
The job title field is hidden in People Search results, Company Organization Chart, Calibration Organization Chart,
and Succession Organization Chart.
You can customize the display order of direct reports under the same manager in Company Organization Chart and
Calibration Organization Chart.
Prerequisites
• Administrator Permissions Metadata Framework Manage Data , select View, Edit, and Import/Export.
• Under User Permissions Miscellaneous Permissions Org Chart Display Overrides , select View, Edit, and
Import/Export.
• Under User Permissions Miscellaneous Permissions Org Chart Display Overrides.Direct Reports (Org
Chart Report) , select View, Correct, Create, Adjust Order, and Delete.
Note
Custom display order applies only to org charts in the desktop version.
Procedure
1. Go to Admin Center Company System and Logo Settings Company System Settings , and enable
option Allow overrides of default display in organization charts (Company Organization Chart and Calibration
Organization Chart).
2. Go to Admin Center Manage Data and create a new record for object Org Chart Display Overrides.
3. Enter the manager and the direct reports that you want to customize the order for. Use the arrows to adjust
display orders of direct reports.
4. Save the changes.
Results
The custom order now displays in the Company Organization Chart and Calibration Organization Chart.
You can navigate, export, and print the Company Organization Chart. You can access the Company Organization
Chart through the Org Chart option in the Home menu. There are also two tiles for the Company Organization Chart
on the Home Page.
In addition to the main navigation menu, you can also access the Company Organization Chart through action
search, the employee quickcard, and Home Page tiles.
Action Search
Type a few key words in the action search field like org or org chart and select View Org Chart from the search
results.
Quickcard
You can also access the Company Organization Chart through an employee quickcard.
• If the Org Chart tile is enabled for the My Info section in the Manage Home Page admin tool, employees can
access the Org Chart tile under the My Info section on Home Page.
• If the Org Chart tile is enabled for the My Team section in the Manage Home Page admin tool, managers,
including direct managers and matrix managers, can access the Org Chart tile under the My Team section on
Home Page.
The Organization Chart includes the following features on the home page.
View Org Chart Takes you to the Quick Actions Always shown, • Organization No
company organiza- based on system
Chart is ena-
tion chart. configuration and Note
bled.
user permission.
• You have You can use the
Company Info native Org
Access per- Chart on iOS
mission. and Android
mobile applica-
• It's selected at
tions instead.
Manage
Home Page
Quick
Actions .
You can navigate up or down in the Company Organization Chart. You can also choose to display direct reports,
matrix report, or both in the Company organization Chart.
Prerequisites
You have the Company Info Access, Organization Chart Navigation Permission, and User Search permissions.
Procedure
If the employee is a manager, the direct reports and matrix reports of the manager also displays.
3. You can navigate up the Company Organization Chart by clicking the Up One Level button.
4. You can navigate down the hierarchy by clicking on the team size. The team size is at the bottom of the
organization chart node of any user who has direct or matrix reports.
5. You can also click the Display Options icon to choose from three display options: All Reports, Direct Reports
Only, and Matrix Reports Only.
System remembers your chosen display option when you log in the next time.
Note
If the employee you're searching has no matrix managers or matrix reports, the Up One Level button
disappears when you choose the Matrix Reports Only view. You can change to the All Reports display option
to navigate.
You can export and print the Company Organization Chart and save it as a PDF file or an image.
Prerequisites
You have the Company Info Access, Organization Chart Navigation Permission, and User Search permissions.
Note
If your Company Organization Chart contains sensitive information, be cautious when you share the export
file with others. The Export icon cannot be deactivated.
Results
Next Steps
You can print the exported file of your Company Organization Chart.
Learn about changes to the documentation for Setting Up and Using Organization Chart in recent releases.
2H 2023
Changed We moved the Change History to the end Organization Charts in SAP SuccessFac-
of the guide. tors [page 3]
1H 2023
New You can now turn off peer display in Mo- Enabling Mobile Org Chart [page 10]
bile Org Chart to improve performance.
1H 2022
New You can hide job title information in organ- Hiding Job Title in People Search and Or-
ization charts. ganization Charts [page 17]
2H 2021
New You can show custom relationships in the Showing Custom Relationships in Com-
Company Organization Chart. pany Organization Chart [page 14]
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