View an organization's hierarchy

This guide shows you how to see an organization’s parent and child organizations. For example, a regional chapter can sit under a national association.

Who can do this: Any admin who can view members.

Before you start

Open the organization’s record. You can find it from Members by setting the Record type filter to Organizations.

Steps

On the organization’s record, select the Hierarchy tab.
Read the structure top to bottom:
- The parent, if there is one, shows at the top as a breadcrumb.
- The org you’re viewing shows next. Badges show its employee count and its number of child orgs.
- Its direct child orgs are listed below. Each one shows its own employee and child counts.
To move to a child org, select its name. Its detail page opens, and the view re-centers on it.
If the list of children is long, select Load more organizations to load the next batch.

How the hierarchy works

MapleGather shows one level at a time: the immediate parent and the direct children. To go deeper, open a child organization. The view then re-centers on it.
The hierarchy shows counts, not the full list of people. To see who works there, open the organization and use its Members tab.
Large structures, such as a national body with many chapters, load in batches so the page stays fast.
Shared benefits across a parent and its chapters are set up with corporate memberships, a separate feature. This view shows structure and counts only.

Verify

You’ll know it worked when the Hierarchy tab shows the org with its parent above it (when it has one). Its child orgs are listed below, each with an employee count and a child count.

If something goes wrong

“This organization has no parent or child organizations” — the organization is standalone. To give this organization a parent, select Edit and choose the parent in the Parent organization field. To add a child under it, open the child organization, select Edit, and set its Parent organization to this one.