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Hi all, looking for some sort of solution to restrict employees to viewing a certain subset of multiple department related data - more than their own single dept, but less than all. Any ideas? (e.g. two divisions with multiple dept's in each - employees in one division can see all their own dept data, but not the other divisions)

<@UQ6LPAC0Y> I'm not completely following your example but I'm assuming you're talking about being able to restrict to separate department leaf nodes in your department hierarchy. If there is any way to restructure your department hierarchy so that you can use the native functionality (own, own and subordinates, etc.), I HIGHLY recommend doing that.

Now that you've been sufficiently warned about the "correct" way to do things, there is a workaround, but there are a lot of drawbacks...

you can create multiple employee records for each user with different departments, classes, etc. As long as they have the same email address it won't take up another license

however, I do strongly recommend against doing this if at all possible, as it can be quite the PITA if you need to create approval workflows, scripts, or anything else that depends on employee selections

plus whoever admins your account (doing adding/removing users and role changes) really needs to know how this setup works and account for when doing those actions