Departments
This page allows you to manage your LDAP tree structure, so that you may sort the other objects in branches later.
Click on Departments icon on FusionDirectory main page
![Picture of Departments icon in FusionDirectory](../../_images/core-icon-departments.png)
Your will be directed to Departments management page
![Picture of Departments management screen in FusionDirectory](../../_images/core-departments-management-page.png)
The following actions are available:
Create Department: Think of this as the LDAP equivalent of a folder, it’s the basic container for organizing objects in your LDAP.
![Picture of create department menu in FusionDirectory](../../_images/core-action-create-department.png)
Create Country: You may use this if your activity is spread over several countries and you want to reflect that in your tree.
![Picture of create country menu in FusionDirectory](../../_images/core-action-create-country.png)
Domain Component: You may use that to reflect your DNS in your tree
![Picture of create domain component menu in FusionDirectory](../../_images/core-action-create-domain-component.png)
Domain: Same as above but if you want to put the whole domain as only one node (ie d=example.com instead of dc=example,dc=com)
![Picture of create domain menu in FusionDirectory](../../_images/core-action-create-domain.png)
Locality: You may use this if your activity is spread over several locations and you want to reflect that in your tree.
![Picture of create locality menu in FusionDirectory](../../_images/core-action-create-locality.png)
Organization: May represent a company or any other kind of organization.
![Picture of create organization menu in FusionDirectory](../../_images/core-action-create-organization.png)
Export list:
PDF: Export the current object list as a PDF document
CSV: Export the current object list as a CSV file
![Picture of export list menu in FusionDirectory](../../_images/core-action-export-list.png)
Remove: Delete an existing department
![Picture of remove department menu in FusionDirectory](../../_images/core-action-remove.png)