Before you can start adding organizations into your database, your administrator must first determine your levels. The organizational levels are the structure of your site, for example, org, sub-org, department, and unit.
The three main organization categories are:
- Parent: a Parent Organization is the highest level in your organization structure. It is referred to as a parent because it can have dependent organizations below it.
- Child Organization: a Child Organization is subordinate to another organization. A Child Organization always belongs to another organization and is one level lower than the organization to which it belongs. You can add a child to a parent or another child organization.
- Peer Organization: a Peer Organization is at the same level as the organization to which it is associated, it is more of a support organization. It is not a sub-ordinate or child of the organization. A peer organization can be at any level within your organization levels.
You must first add the Parent Organization and then its Peer and/or Children organizations.