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better org chart

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Linda Dorn

It would be very neat to have a better view when clicking on orga chart in the profile. right now you just see direct superiors. Why not displaying the whole team with peers etc?

July 19, 2019

Angela Gaida

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complete

Hey all,
since we released all the parts of the planned new OrgCharts and Structural Charts in the recent releases (and will be releasing further improvements on this in the upcoming release), I'll set this ticket on complete. 
I will go through the plethora of comments on this ticket and filter out all the suggestions that might not be done yet and will open new, specific tickets for these if necessary. I'll keep you all updated :)

Владимир Золочевский

Thanks for updating the org charts. It is necessary to make it possible to select the head of the department. You can link a head of the department to a department card, for example. Also, I would like to be able to add a custom employee to the department.

Olaf Stehr

Thanks for the latest major upgrade of the org-chart functionality!
Here another suggestion to further improve the org-chart macro:
ADD TEAM/DEPT GROUPING 
In companies with a flat hierarchy the current org-chart needs _A_LOT_ of horizontal space when "siblings" are shown. 
It would be great if you could add an optional grouping feature which allows users to select a second profile field (e.g. "team") that can be used to group a set of users in order to create an extra branch level.

Olaf Stehr

Thanks for the latest major upgrade of the org-chart functionality!
Here another suggestion to further improve the org-chart macro:
ADD CONFIGURABLE FILTER
In addition to internal employees we have a number of external consultants and freelancers working alongside our employees in various teams. In certain cases, it would be great to have an option to only show internal employees in an orgchart and filter out the rest. This could be achieved by adding an optional filter condition to the macro configuration (similar to the filter in the user-list macro)

Angela Gaida

Step 2 as described in my earlier comment is now available with Linchpin User Profiles version 2.25 that has been released to the Atlassian Marketplace. It will also be part of the upcoming Versions of Linchpin Suite 4.0 and Linchpin Essentials 1.4; we are working on these releases at the moment and they should be available soon.

We are also working on step 3 and making good progress.

Ciaira Castorena

Angela Gaida: One clarification question: If we're using the Linchpin Suite, are we really unable to update the individual apps (such as LUP) within the suite on a case-by-case basis, in order to adopt new features in those apps? In other words, do we have to wait for Suite 4.0 to be released before we can get access to the new Org Chart macro? I'm not seeing an option to update our LUP app and the current version is 2.24.4-bundle, but I know that if I uninstall it and try to install LUP directly from the marketplace I'll get an error that my license isn't compatible.

Angela Gaida

Ciaira Castorena: Yes, that's correct, and under normal circumstances we would have released the version 4.0 quite a while ago. At the moment though we are battling a vicious problem that occurs under certain combinations of Windows-Versions and IE11, and that has delayed the release. We hope to be able to release this week, but are not 100% sure yet.

Angela Gaida

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in progress

Oh my goodness. I never put that one into "in progress". 
We are actively working on the OrgCharts within Linchpin. This happens in three steps: 
Step 1: navigation (up, down) through the OrgChart, showing "siblings" within the User Profile. This has already been implemented and shipped with the latest Version. 
Step 2: A complete OrgChart as a hub page, not attached to a single person's profile, but attached to the people directory, plus a macro to embed into pages and show specific parts of the chart. This Step is being worked on right now. 
Step 3: Organizational OrgCharts that don't depend on the "Superior" field only, but can show e.g. the structure of departments with their respective people. We'll tackle this step towards the end of the year.

Rainer Woywod

We need a better (dynamic) Implementation of Orgchart inside our Linchpin-Intranet than draw.io-diagrams. Orgchart based on the linchpin-userprofile-data and powered by directory-service-informations like active directory is a excellent idea to do so. The actually released feature in LInchpin-Suite 3.4 is not enough. The whole company-orgchart implemented by a makro on a single site in our intranet is the preferred solution for us, the two-level-orgchart in userprofiles is not that, we expected on this trail.

Thanks in advance.

Rainer Woywod

How can I vote for this improvement, I have no idea and no button here?

Oh very thanks Katharina.

Angela Gaida

Merged in a post:

Better Org Charts for Linchpin

Thamara Adler

The topic of Org Charts in Linchpin is regularly addressed by our users. We are currently working on a concept, step by step to improve and close current gaps in our product. The attached screenshots show the direction we would like to go in terms of the development of Org Charts in the future. As always, we are happy to hear your feedback!

January 20, 2020

Angela Gaida

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planned

We will start working on the development in March.

Mario Martinez

Angela Gaida: update?

Rainer Woywod

Angela Gaida: Could you explain us your roadmap to the goal (fully implemented orgchart in confluence) ?

Thamara Adler

We are currently working on a concept to step by step close and improve current gaps in our product reading Org Charts. You can take a look at first layouts here: https://linchpin.canny.io/admin/board/linchpin-user-profiles/p/better-org-charts-for-linchpin

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