Location Groups

Location groups are hierarchies of parent-child location relationships. Reporting hierarchies differ from organization hierarchies because you can use the same location in multiple hierarchies. Users can select the reporting hierarchies when running core reports, guest check queries, and Enterprise Maintenance Services. In the following example, the Columbia restaurant appears in two reporting hierarchies. The first hierarchy organizes locations into organization types and then into regions, allowing users to run reports on all corporate locations, all franchise locations, on franchise locations by region, or by each specific location. The second hierarchy organizes locations by property type, such as mall locations and free-standing locations. Both hierarchies provide users with a convenient way select more than one location by context that is familiar to their business use-case.

Figure 9-1 Example Reporting Hierarchies with the Same Location