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Team Structure in Collate

Collate organizes teams into a hierarchy so that ownership, roles, and permissions map cleanly onto how your company is structured. Every team has a teamType that determines where it sits in this hierarchy and which other team types it can connect to as parents or children.

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Team Types

Collate supports five team types, ordered from the top of the hierarchy to the bottom:

1. Organization — The root of the hierarchy, representing the entire company.
2. Business Unit — A major division of the organization, such as a business line or region.
3. Division — A subdivision within a Business Unit.
4. Department — A functional group within a Division.
5. Group (default team type): The lowest level in the hierarchy, used to group individual users.

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Hierarchy Rules

Each team type has specific rules for what it can contain (children) and what it can belong to (parents):

• Organization
  • Children — Business Unit, Division, Department, Group
  • Parents — None — Organization is the root and cannot have a parent
• Business Unit
  • Children — Business Unit, Division, Department, Group
  • Parents — Organization or Business Unit (one parent only)
• Division
  • Children — Division, Department, Group
  • Parents — Organization, Business Unit, or Division (one parent only)
• Department
  • Children — Department, Group
  • Parents — Organization, Business Unit, Division, or Department (multiple parents allowed)
• Group
  • Children — Users only — a Group cannot contain other teams
  • Parents — Any team type (multiple parents allowed)