[NGO] Organisation Diagrams (organograms) on Intranets

[Nate Aune]

Hi Stuart,

You might be able to use something like PloneOntology to create the  
relationships and then map them using the included Graphviz plugin.
http://plone.org/products/ploneontology/screenshot/image_view_fullscreen

Russ Ferriday discusses using Graphviz for visualizing keyword  
relationships on his blog:
http://ferriday.org/blog/archive/2006/09/04/keyword-visualization-for- 
blogs

Nate

On Sep 26, 2006, at 5:13 AM, Stuart McSkimming wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Recently we've been having some real joy with our Plone intranet -  
> we've got
> it up and running, and apart from some frustrations with user lists  
> and
> Active Directory/LDAP, have solved most of our problems.
>
> The next feature we're looking at is a product to display organisation
> charts. After discussing it yesterday with FRY-IT (a bunch of clued- 
> up Plone
> developers who've been writing some really clever stuff for us over  
> the past
> couple of months), I started thinking that something like this must  
> already
> exist.
>
> I'm thinking of something which automatically works out who works in a
> particular position within an organisation, and then allows you to  
> view info
> such as what team they are in, who is there line manager, etc. The  
> product
> would then allow you to navigate up or down the organisational tree.
> Given that we already have a complete list of our staff, their job  
> titles,
> departments, etc in Active Directory/LDAP, it would seem natural  
> that we try
> and infer the diagram automatically from that information.
>
> Does anyone know of anything similar that already exists? I read Sam
> Stainsby's posting yesterday.... but from the sound of it, that's  
> not quite
> the same as what I'm talking about.
>
> If no-one else has written it, is it something which the community  
> would
> find useful? - if it is, we'll aim to develop it in a generic way,  
> so that
> we can release it as open-source.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
>
> Stuart McSkimming
> IT Development Manager
> VSO
>
> tel 020 8780 7672
> email stuart.mcskimming at vso.org.uk
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