Org Chart Builder App: Auto-Layout, Print and Export (UAE)

Org Chart Builder is an offline app for owners and HR managers whose organisation chart lives in a PowerPoint slide that nobody dares to touch, because moving one box means nudging twenty others. You enter people once (name, job title, department, who they report to) and the app draws and re-draws the chart for you: every manager is centred above their team, levels line up, and nothing overlaps.

What it does:

• People list with department colours (automatic, editable), optional location, email and phone, and vacant positions drawn with a dashed box that are not counted as headcount
• Automatic tidy tree layout, top to bottom or left to right, three box sizes, several top-level people side by side, zoom and fit to width
• Collapse or expand any branch with the number badge, highlight one department, show or hide badges and the legend
• The manager list never offers someone below you, so a reporting loop cannot be created; deleting a manager asks whether the team moves to the manager above or to the top level
• People CSV import with a preview and line-numbered errors for empty names, repeated codes, managers not found, managers matching two people, self-reporting and loops; managers can be written as a code or a full name
• Print on A4 landscape or portrait, scaled to fit one page, or one page for each top-level branch; export SVG (editable text, opens in Word, PowerPoint and design tools) or PNG; people CSV with level and manager path; JSON backup and restore
• Insights: headcount by department (people, vacancies, positions), span of control (direct and total reports), levels, the longest chain, and a checks list (more than one top person, departments with no filled leader, repeated names)

The problem it solves: a chart that is out of date the week after it is drawn, and a lot of time spent dragging boxes. Here a change to the list is a change to the chart.

Who it is for: small and medium businesses, clinics, schools, contractors and retailers with 5 to a few hundred people, and anyone preparing an organisation chart for a bank, a tender or an audit pack. The app only draws the structure you enter. It does not know any labour law and it is not connected to any government or HR system.

What it is not: no dotted-line or matrix reporting (each person has one manager), no photos, no payroll, salary or contract data, no approvals. Long job titles are shortened inside the box; the full title stays in the list and the exports.

How it differs from the HR spreadsheets and documents in the catalogue: those are workbooks and documents you fill in and print. This is a small app with a layout engine, validation, imports and exports, so the chart redraws itself when the list changes. There is no organisation chart product in the earlier spreadsheet range, so it sits beside them rather than replacing any.

Verified by driving the real app in headless Chromium: 63 scripted checks (building a chart through the screens, cycle prevention, layout rules measured from the drawn SVG, collapse, SVG parsed as XML, PNG decoded and checked for non-blank pixels, print preview and split print, deletion with reassignment, CSV import with six kinds of error, insights numbers, backup round trip, a 200-person chart drawn in under 3 seconds) and 45 random trees (1,260 people, 953 laid-out boxes) compared with an independent Python recomputation of headcount, span of control, depth and the layout rules with zero mismatches. The scripted flows also ran in WebKit (62 passed; the PDF step is Chromium only). Firefox could not be launched on the test machine, so it was not tested there. Not tested in Microsoft Edge or on a physical phone (the layout was checked at 375 px wide).