Creating and managing Departments

A Department is a collection of related folders used to compartmentalize the Projects in your library. Departments are a useful way to organize your library, especially if you have different teams working on different content. When a Project is sorted into a folder that sits under a Department, it can only be seen by users whose Access Level applies to that Department.

You can use Departments to:

• Organize your Projects
  Departments offer a way of categorizing folders across different teams of people.
• Give limited access to groups of users
  Compartmentalize your content by restricting certain Projects to certain teams rather than individually sharing Projects with specific users.
• Protect confidential content from external teams
  Segmenting your content into specific Departments can help you protect confidential information, especially if you’re working with external teams, contractors etc. 

Before you begin

• Departments are managed in the User Management interface. For instructions on how to open this page, see Accessing the User Management page.

• Departments are only available to use in Elucidat Author. 

Creating a new Department

1. Select Departments from the User Management page side-bar menu.
   
   
2. Select Add Department.
   
   
3. Type a name for your new Department in the text field.
4. Select Create Department to complete the process.

Deleting a Department

1. Choose the Department you’d like to delete from the Department list
2. Select Edit details
   
   
3. Select Delete this Department
4. Confirm the deletion by selecting Yes, delete Department