A directional pointer at the end of a line. Use arrowheads to highlight important information in your Chart or to indicate the flow of procedures or decisions.
A box representing an individual who provides administrative assistance, advice, or managerial assistance to their Manager (sometimes referred to as a staff box).
Different Assistant Styles are available to show the particular type of relationship between the assistant and Manager.
A way to represent the relationship of a Manager to an Assistant. Assistant styles are available from the Styles menu.
An optional module that enables you to collaboratively work with others in restructuring and modifying organizational data to create new charts or sub-charts. Blueprint Editors and Administrators can work on these restructuring activities, but only Blueprint Administrators can approve the changes.
A box and all its descendants.
A chart that displays all supervisors (direct and indirect) for the topmost chart box.
A graphical representation of hierarchical information.
The building block of a Chart. OrgPlus automatically draws Connecting Lines between boxes. The arrangement of chart boxes and the connections between them form a chart.
The particular arrangement of Subordinate boxes with respect to a Manager. Any Subordinate box can have its own chart style. Chart styles are located in the Chart Styles menu.
A temporary storage place in Windows. Use the Cut and Copy commands to place items on the Clipboard and use the Paste command to paste items from the Clipboard into your Chart.
One or more boxes that share responsibility for a group of subordinates. The highlighted boxes in the figure below are co-managers.
You can show this relationship using the Co-manager style.
The lines OrgPlus draws automatically to connect boxes in the Chart.
Boxes with the same Manager. Together, co-workers form a Group.
A special reporting relationship between two boxes in the Chart. A dotted line usually indicates that one box has some measure of authority over the other box.
An area in a Chart Box where you can view information such as a person’s name or salary.
The way Fields are arranged in your Chart Boxes. Different boxes can have different field layouts.
A field type used for performing calculations in your Chart.
All of the boxes reporting to the same Manager, excluding Assistant boxes. A group is also a set of boxes that all meet a specified condition.
A branch included in the source data that cannot be included in the main hierarchy. This is typically due to missing or invalid supervisor information for the topmost box within the branch.
The Topmost Box in your chart is at level 1. The boxes reporting directly to it are at level 2. The boxes reporting to them are at level 3 and so on. The black boxes in the figure below are at level 4.
A box that has subordinate boxes reporting to it.
A record included in the source data that cannot be included in the main hierarchy. This is typically due to missing or invalid supervisor information.
When you click the secondary mouse button on an object or window, OrgPlus displays a popup menu containing commands for that object or window.
A grouping of boxes within a larger group. In the figure below, a, b and c belong to one subgroup and d, e and f belong to another subgroup. Both of these subgroups belong to the same Group because they have the same Manager.
Any box that reports to another box.
A window containing a miniature of the entire Chart. You can click in the thumbnail window to navigate to any part of your chart.
The box at the top of the Chart.