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How To Organise Teams And users | /how-to-guides/teams-and-users/how-to-organise-teams-and-users |
How To Organise Teams And users
Team structure in OpenMetadata
In OpenMetadata we have hierarchal team structure with teamType
that can be Organization
, Business Unit
, Division
, Department
, and Group
(default team type).
-
Organization
is the root team in the hierarchy. It can't have a parent. It can have children of typeBusiness Unit
,Division
,Department
,Group
along withUsers
directly as children (who are without teams). -
BusinessUnit
is the next level of the team in the hierarchy. It can haveBusiness Unit
,Division
,Department
, andGroup
as children. It can only have one parent either of typeOrganization
, orBusiness Unit
. -
Division
is the next level of the team in the hierarchy belowBusiness Unit
. It can haveDivision
,Department
, andGroup
as children. It can only have one parent of typeOrganization
,Business Unit
, orDivision
. -
Department
is the next level of the team in the hierarchy belowDivision
. It can haveDepartment
andGroup
as children. It can haveOrganization
,Business Unit
,Division
, orDepartment
as parents. It can have multiple parents. -
Group
is the last level of the team in the hierarchy. It can have onlyUsers
as children and not any other teams. It can have all the team types as parents. It can have multiple parents.
{% image src="/images/v1.0.0/how-to-guides/teams-and-users/teams-structure.png" alt="team-structure" /%}
How to change the team type
Let's say you have team Cloud_Infra
of type Department
and you want to change it to the type BusinessUnit
, you can easily do that through UI.
1. Click on the Cloud_Infra
team name and it will take you to the Cloud_Infra
details page.
{% image src="/images/v1.0.0/how-to-guides/teams-and-users/cloud-infra.png" alt="cloud-infra" /%}
2. On details page you will see the Type - Department
with edit button.
{% image src="/images/v1.0.0/how-to-guides/teams-and-users/team-type.png" alt="team-type" /%}
3. Now Click on the edit button and you will get a set of options and from them select BusinessUnit
and click on ✅ to save it.
{% image src="/images/v1.0.0/how-to-guides/teams-and-users/select-team-type.png" alt="select-team-type" /%}
4. Now you can see Cloud_Infra
team type changed to BusinessUnit
from Department
.