Hierarchy of users

The hierarchy of users was introduced in version 11 of nVision. It enables to determine the relationships among users.

Each user has the “superior” field, which may be left blank or contain exactly one user. The hierarchy of users is built only based on the relationships contained in this field. Any users that do not have a superior are located on the root level, but there is no relationship among them in the hierarchy.

This feature is closely related to the SmartTime module where a user that is higher in the hierarchy (superior) may have access to specific activities of a user that is lower in the hierarchy (subordinate). For more information about this relationship, refer to SmartTime chapter.

To view the hierarchy of users, click the Hierarchy button in the Main / Users tab:

Creating a hierarchy

The hierarchy of users can be created in two ways:

The first one is to drag and drop users in the hierarchy view. Please note that you cannot change the superiors/subordinates of the users downloaded from Active Directory.

The second way is to define the superior in the user information screen. To do this, navigate to this screen for the selected user and modify the “superior” field: