Virtual Organizational Structures
A virtual organizational structure is an ad hoc, user-based organizational structure that you can create for specific—often temporary—reporting use cases. You can use virtual organizational structures to combine usage for users that belong to multiple organizational structures—for example, users who are part of a functional department and a specific geographic location.
You create virtual organizational structures by importing a CSV file containing the organizational-structure definition. (See the topic, Creating Virtual Organizational Structures, for information about creating virtual organizational structures.)
To allow for easy organizational-structure definition, virtual organizational structures have only two levels when they are created: a top level (root node) and a leaf level (users). You can modify an existing virtual organizational structure via the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications user interface.
Diagram of a virtual organizational structure
Limitations
Virtual organizational structures have the following limitations:
| • | There is no LDAP integration for virtual organizational structures. |
| • | Virtual organizations cannot be modified or updated via CSV import. If you attempt to import the same CSV file more than once, it will trigger an exception. You can modify a virtual organizational structure via the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications user interface. |
Enabling Virtual Organizational Structures for Hybrid Aggregation
You can enable virtual organizational structures for hybrid aggregation—multi-dimensional aggregation where usage data is aggregated on the basis of organization and license server. (See Hybrid Organizational Structures for information.)
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