Managers and superiors

Group manager

The manager is a person that may have access to the activity data for all members of their groups. These persons may or may not be members of the groups managed by them.

To assign the group manager rights to a user, navigate to the Group information screen and select the appropriate person from the drop-down list in the Manager field.

By default, access to the activity data of other group members is disabled and the manager does not have access to them. To enable access to the data, click the toggle shown in the screenshot below:

To check whether a user is a manager of any group, go to the User information screen for this user. The information will be displayed in the Accounts and groups section after clicking the appropriate option.

Note! When importing groups with assigned managers from Active Directory, it is not possible to modify this person in the nVision console (synchronized with the corresponding “managed to” field in Active Directory). Any changes should be made in the Active Directory.

Superiors and subordinates

These settings are related to the hierarchy of users in nVision. This functionality allows the administrator to define the relationships among employees. The supervisor field is assigned to each user, and it may be left blank or contain the user name. For users synchronized with Active Directory, the value in this field is a read-only value, and it is read from the field with the same name.

To manage the hierarchy of users, select Hierarchy in the Users tab. In this list, you can drag and drop the users to define subordinates and superiors for them.

Alternatively, in order to define a superior for a specific user, navigate to the User information screen for this user and select the superior for the person from the drop-down list in the Accounts and groups section.

In the SmartTime module, the superiors will be able to verify the activity of their subordinates, even if access to the activity data in the group is disabled.