SharePoint online organization browser

In this SharePoint online tutorial, I will discuss how to use SharePoint Online organization browser web part to create an organization chart in SharePoint online Office 365. SharePoint Online “Organization Browser” web part helps us to create an Organization chart in SharePoint online site.

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What is Organization Chart in SharePoint Online?

The SharePoint organization chart is the diagram representation of the internal structure of the organization. The organizational chart is displaying the employee roles, position, and the relationship between all the employee within each other in the organization.

When the people are new to the organization by seeing the organizational chart they can easily able to know the internal things that are how the organization is designed, what are every one role and position and a total number of the levels.

NOTE: The “Organization Browser” web part is not supported in the “Google Chrome” browser. So open this page on the internet explorer.

How to use Organization Browser web part to create SharePoint Online Organization Chat

To create an Organization Chat in SharePoint online, first, we will create a web part page in SharePoint Online site and then we will add Organization browser web part to create the SharePoint Online organization chart.

Yo can follow below steps to create a web part page first, or you can read Working with web part page and wiki page in SharePoint 2016.

Open SharePoint Online site, “Site Pages” -> “FILES” -> “Web Part Page”.

While you will click on “Web Part Page”, a “New Web Part Page” will appear. In that new web part page, fill the below fields:

Name: Enter the name of the web part page.
Layout: Choose a layout template for the web part page.
Save Location: Select the document library where you want the web part page to be saved.

Once all the field value will over, Click on “Create“.

Add Organization Browser Web Part in SharePoint Online

Now we will see how we can add organization browser web part in SharePoint Online web part page. Open the web part page which we created above then Click on “Add a Web Part“. Then click on the “Social Collaboration” from “Categories” template and then “Organization Browser” from “Parts” template.

After adding that “Organization Browser“, it will display the current logged in user name because the SharePoint does not know who reports to whom. So for that, we need to add the details in “SharePoint User Profile“.

To add the details in SharePoint User Profile, go to the SharePoint Admin center -> user profiles.

In the “user profiles” page, go to “Manage user Profiles” whcich comes under “People“.

In the “Manage User Profiles” page, find the name inside the “Find profiles” search box. Enter the name which you want to find and then click on “Find“. After that, the name will display in the “Account name” as shown in below.

To edit the profile, Click on the dropdown option which is present at the right side of the Account name. Then click on “Edit My Profile“.

sharepoint 2013 online org chart — sharepoint 2013 org chart

Now the “Edit User Profile” page will open in SharePoint Online admin center. Here you have to enter the name of your manager in the “Manager” field. Also, specify the fields whatever you want as per your requirement. Click on “Save and close” button.

organization chart webpart in sharepoint online — sharepoint 365 organization chart

For assigned two more users under that particular Manager, we will go to the “Edit My Profile” page of the users and in the manager field, assign the same manager name. Here 3 users are there those are coming under one manager.

When we logged in with the user to the particular SharePoint Online site, who are inside the organizatinal chart then can also able to see the same structure.

When you will click on any user account name on the web part page, it will directly bring you to the specific User Profile page.

As here I have clicked on the manager user account name, so the below screenshot is displaying about that manager user profile details.

You may like following SharePoint Online tutorials:

This blog I have explained, how to create a web part page in SharePoint Online Office 365? How you can add Organization browser web part in SharePoint Online Office 365?

Here we saw how we can display organisation chart in SharePoint Online Office 365 using Organization browser web part.

Bijay Kumar

I am Bijay a Microsoft MVP (8 times – My MVP Profile) in SharePoint and have more than 15 years of expertise in SharePoint Online Office 365, SharePoint subscription edition, and SharePoint 2019/2016/2013. Currently working in my own venture TSInfo Technologies a SharePoint development, consulting, and training company. I also run the popular SharePoint website EnjoySharePoint.com