Organizational Structures for Reporting

FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications supports the creation of organizational structures. Organizational structures enable grouping and sub-grouping of users, projects, and license server hosts in hierarchical order. You can use organizational structures in reporting and for product license distribution.

For example, you can create organizational structures for all of the users in your organization based on the departments to which they belong. You can create another organizational structure based on the geographical location to which users belong. Both organizational structures can exist in the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications system at one time and you can generate reports for either group or for subgroups of these two organizational structures.

Organization structures are made up of nodes that are arranged in a tree structure. There is a single root node at the top of each organizational structure. Leaf nodes (nodes that have zero child nodes) for each organizational structure are defined by the type of the structure—for example, each leaf node of a user-based organizational structure corresponds to a user in your enterprise. A leaf node cannot have another leaf-level node as a parent. A leaf-level node cannot have more than one parent node on the same date.

The nodes between the root node and the leaf nodes are known as intermediate nodes. There can be an arbitrary number of intermediate levels in each organizational structure. A leaf-level node could have an intermediate parent node of any level.

Note:See the online FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications 2020 R1 Help Library for information about defining organizational structures using the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications interface, including information about working with LDAP.