The Organizations view helps business users view the structure of their organization. They can see a high-level picture in a tree form, see lists of organizations and employees, and retrieve employee information from a user registry.
This view requires an installed user registry. The Organizations view retrieves the information on organizations and employees stored on a user registry that WebSphere Portal is configured to use, whether it is LDAP or any other directory server. If a user registry other than the default user registry that comes with the WebSphere® Portal is being used, the Organizations view must have access to the WebSphere Member Manager (WMM) system ID to gain access to the user registry. The value for the WMM system ID is stored in the WebSphere Portal Credential vault. A user with administrative privileges selects the appropriate credential vault slot for the Organizations view to have access to the WMM system ID and the user registry.
You can search for a specific organization and view its associated employees. You can also search for an employee name or several names, in a particular organization or in the entire organizational structure. The search results give you the employee names, each with an associated e-mail address.
You can use this view along with the Reports view. A report can be filtered based on employees selected on various criteria. If you establish a wiring connection from the Organizations view targeting the Reports view, your report process instances data based on an employee or organization selected from the Organizations view is automatically updated.
The Organizations view retrieves registry directory information, and displays the hierarchy of the organizations and their associated employees in the form of a tree. Each item in the tree is rendered as a link. After wiring the Organizations to the Reports view, you can click on any of the items in the Organizations view, and the Reports view data is filtered. If you click on an organization, the process instances data in the Reports view is filtered, based on the employees belonging to the selected organization.
The configuration saved by the Administrator role can be personalized later by other roles, provided that they have access to the view edit mode, for example, the Privileged User role.