Horizontal / Peer adding
I started at the top of an IT org and I'd love to add the business side by putting the business side peer right next to the top of the IT org. I haven't found a way to add a horizontal connection to the person at the top.
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AdminPhilip Lee (Supporter, Mobilinked) commented
A little complicated topic.
There is no standard for organization chart, we can DRAW the organization chart as we need and want.
You may saw that there was no any specific app designed for organization chart for the users to create organization chart freely for all the possibilities, there are some apps to create org chart for special organization structure.
Most of the time, we have to use DRAWING app such as PPT and Visio to DRAW the chart FREELY.
What's the reason, as the computer is not that smart to help the human to draw the chart (layout the departments on canvas) for all the possibilities (even another human also does not know how to draw the the chart for you like in your mind, and even yourself, before completed drawing the chart, you also don't know what the chart will be)
With some limitation, it's possible for the computer to calculate how to layout the department units. OrgChart is designed for the TREE structure organization chart, OrgChart knows how to layout the units of a TREE structure organization, but if your organization is not TREE structure (such as matrix, or with additional links...), OrgChart does not know how to do for you.
So OrgChart is for the people to quickly create organization chart of TREE structure organization, to avoid drawing pain. If the organization is not tree structure, we have to DRAW it
OrgChart is the cheap app for part of the organization chart creation requirements. Of cause it's possible to support more and more possibilities (but impossible be 100%) with huge investment and much more higher price (may be thousands dollars)
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Anonymous commented
I really need lateral lines with the option of them being dotted please
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Nasir Mahmud commented
I agree .... The app definitely needs an ability to add peer connections / resources. Equally desirable is being able to add a standalone tree allowing the ability to create peer organisations and / or departments side by side.
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Gilberto commented
I've found the same problem when trying to add a person that does not report to the root
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Anonymous commented
Love the program, but lacks one simple piece - a lateral connection. Adding that would make this program perfect and fully useful for large complex organizations.