Display assistants in Org Chart for SharePoint and Microsoft Teams (Entra ID)
Org Chart supports displaying assistants alongside employees in the organizational hierarchy. This article explains how to configure assistants when using Entra ID as the data source.
The following examples show how assistants appear in the Classic top-to-bottom layout. Assistant placement may vary depending on the selected layout.
Example with a single assistant:
Note
Entra ID does not support multiple assistants and dotted line subordinates.
Data source for assistants in Entra ID
Assistants are not mapped by default for the Entra ID data source.
To display assistants, open the configuration wizard and map the assistant field to the custom Entra ID attribute that stores assistant values.
In most cases, assistant attributes are managed in on-premises Active Directory and synchronized to Entra ID as extension attributes.
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For more information, see Microsoft Entra Connect Sync.
You can also configure extension attributes manually in the Exchange Online Admin Center instead of synchronizing them from on-premises Active Directory.
Open the user properties, go to Others, and select Custom attributes.
Enter the assistant’s user principal name (UPN) in the attribute field and save the changes.
Finally, clear the Org Chart cache to reload the updated data. Changes may take some time to impact.
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Check out how to display assistants for the User profiles, SharePoint list, and Excel/CSV data sources.