Org trees
An org tree is Deckgauge's model of your engineering organisation — people, roles, and reporting lines. Contribution ranking, employee boards, and the timesheet's per-tree status configuration all hang off it.
A hierarchy rooted at a chosen person, imported from a CSV or Microsoft Graph.
Building the tree
- Import Chart — in the tree's toolbar, upload a CSV or Excel roster (name, email, role, manager). Rows are created or updated by a stable employee id; a manager reference that doesn't match another row is reported as an orphan warning.
- Microsoft Graph — in the tree's Source tab, connect a Microsoft account and set a root person; everyone reporting up to them is pulled in on Sync now. See Microsoft Graph.
Either way, click Sync in the toolbar afterwards to match the roster's identities against your connected sources — this is what populates each person's activity, contribution ranking, and matched status. See Contribution ranking for how that matching works, and how to fix it when it's wrong.
Renaming and deleting a tree
Both live on the org tree's own page, next to its name. Rename prompts for a new name. Delete permanently removes the tree's employees and identity aliases and its timesheet configuration — synced hours data itself isn't deleted, but the tree's timesheet view is gone — and there's no undo.
Deleting a person deletes their whole branch
Removing an employee removes that person and every descendant beneath them — the branch, not just the node. The confirmation dialog names the count and rolls the names (capped at five, then "and N more"), and deleting a leaf still gets a one-person message.
Employee boards and the timesheet
Inside a tree, + New board creates an employee board — a Monday-style view of the tree's people, with configurable columns, bulk actions, and a Rating column tied to contribution ranking. See Employee boards.
The tree's Timesheet and Report tabs are a view on this same tree, not a separate entity — they show CapEx/OpEx time allocation for its people. See Timesheet & workload.
Under the hood
Clicking a person on the org chart, or a row's Rating column on any employee board, opens their card, with tabs for Updates, Profile, Activity, and Ranking.
If it looks wrong
| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Import reports unresolved managers | A row's manager reference doesn't match another row's employee id | Fix the manager id or name in the source file and re-import |
| People aren't updating after a Microsoft sync | The two-step sync (pull roster, then match) is still running | Wait for the Source tab's status to leave "Syncing…", then check again |
| Deleted a tree by mistake | Delete has no undo | Restore from a backup — see Backup & restore |
Related
- Contribution ranking — how the weighted leaderboard score works, and fixing identity-match gaps.
- Employee boards — grouping and tracking a tree's people like a project board.
- Microsoft Graph — connecting a directory source and keeping it synced.
- Timesheet & workload — the view tab that reads this tree's time allocation.
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