Map your company structure with organizational units 🏢

Organizational units are here!

Microsoft 365 only lets you group employees by office and department. But most organizations need more flexibility, such as grouping employees by division, branch, business unit, district, or faculty.

So we built organizational units into OneDirectory to let your directory match how your company is actually structured.

This feature has been in limited release with select customers for the past few months, and is now available to you in our Pro plan.

You can add people to org units in whatever way makes sense for your organization. Organizational units appear on profiles, in search results, are directly searchable, are clickable throughout the directory, and appear on the sidebar filters (e.g. view all divisions in one place). Each org unit has its own homepage with a unique URL, description, and background.

How to enable organizational units in OneDirectory

Here's how to enable org units in OneDirectory. First, go to Settings > Fields, and under Organizational Structure click "+ Add organizational unit"

1. Enter the display name of your org unit in singular form (e.g. Division)
2. Choose an icon that best represents this org unit
3. Choose if it's Synced with Microsoft 365 or Editable in OneDirectory. Currently, "Editable in OneDirectory" is default - chat to our team if you need it synced to an existing field in Microsoft 365.
4. Set the field's edit permissions
5. Click Add

Now, when you enter Edit Mode in the directory, you’ll see the new org unit section in the left sidebar. Click it, and you can add your master list of organizational units.

For example, if you’ve defined an org unit called Division, this is where you’ll add all your company’s divisions. Once they’re added, those divisions will appear in the Division dropdown when editing a profile, making them easy to assign and manage.

Can I sync an org unit to my Microsoft 365 directory extensions?

Yes. If you're already using directory extensions to store your organizational units as metadata against profiles in Entra ID, you can map those to org units in OneDirectory. Please chat to our support team for assistance with this.