FATHOM

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Advanced Settings

Departments

Departments group your users into the teams they actually work in, with an optional campus for organisations spread across more than one site. Not every account uses them: if you don't see Departments in your Settings menu, they aren't switched on for your account.


Managing departments

Head to Settings → Departments.

  • Add one by typing a name (and a campus, if you want) and clicking Add Department.
  • Rename one by editing its name or campus right in the list and clicking Save on that row.
  • Reorder by dragging rows with the handle on the left. The order you set here is the order used everywhere departments appear.
  • Delete with the bin icon. Users who were in that department aren't removed, they just no longer belong to a department.

The Staff column shows how many users are currently in each department, so you can spot an empty one before deleting it.


Where departments show up

On the Users page (Settings → Users), each user's department and campus appear alongside their details, and the All departments dropdown filters the list to one department at a time. Useful when checking who's in a team, or which team someone belongs to.


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