Grouping Users into Organisation Structure

I was going to suggest Organic Groups as a long shot in which to group folks. It might not have been ideal, but it might have worked.

However, your second post completely stumped me because one would need to somehow have put the different users into groups that fit into each other so that one could easily navigate from a "lower" group on the hierarchy to a "higher" group (e.g., new Marketing Department employee, up to the manager, up to VP of Marketing, up to President of the company).

It's a good question that I would like the answer to as well.

An additional question for me would be how to implement the structure you need AND ALSO be able to add the individual users on an as-needed-basis to other groups. Committees come to mind.

For example, in your structure:
Marketing
- Gary
- Linda
- Mary
Management
- Kerry
- Shara
- Chris
- Anthony

Gary and Kerry are on the, e.g., Trade Show Committee
Linda, Kerry, and Shara are on the, e.g., Employee Relations Committee
Gary, Linda, Kerry, and Chris are on the, e.g., Events Committee
Mary and Anthony aren't on any committees.

It seems one would need to be able to create a group (e.g., Marketing, Management, Trade Show Committee, etc.) and then be able to either:
1. Have all the users' names next to the newly-created group and have a check box next to the names in order to select them for the group.
OR
2. Have all the newly-created groups next to each user's name in order to select the group(s) for the specific user one is looking at.

I prefer option # 1 because it would be easier to look at the group and then add ALL the users that belong to that group.

Just my $0.02 worth of ideas. :)

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i have a similar requirement for my current project - that of grouping users according to types beyond the function of drupal roles.

please pardon a newbie for extending what i imagine would be an overly simplistic approach. i came to drupal really more as an experiment, wanting to see how far i can go in developing web projects with as little contact with coding as possible (at any rate i really have but a tiny pocket of php in between my ears). meaning to say, i intend to take drupal as is where is and apply modules on a need basis and just make it work as per instructions.

on the above situation, my workaround is to use the "usernode" module with the "categories" module (i suppose core taxonomy would do the work as well). usernode has a one-to-one relationship with the user data. my understanding of it is like a proxy for the user with the flexibility of being manipulated as content. as we are able to categorize and organize content, so we are also able to categorize and organize users via their respective usernode.

well, at least i'm content with that solution for now, but i would be interested to know how others would arrive at a more streamlined solution... say something like, roles that can be organized perhaps?

Have you tried http://drupal.org/project/oi (Organizational Infrastructure) before?
I haven't, but maybe it's a satisfying answer to your question.

Have fun ;-)

I'm looking for a similar thing... but I need the feature of users being linked with different divisions with a specific relation-type.
I think I'm gonna write a CCK field which combines 2 select fields into one 'component'; one with the possible 'functions' (relation-type) and the other with the available 'divisions'.
So I can define Mr. X as Head of Management and as Member of Marketing.
Dependencies are: CCK and UserNode modules.

Unluckely, http://drupal.org/project/relationship (Relationship) isn't available for Drupal 5 (yet)...

Feedback of any kind is welcome !