The easiest way to link a person to an organisation, is to create the organisation first. Once the organisation is created, you can link people to it by browsing the person's details and set the relationship with the existing organisation. As described in the previous tutorial, Z Company has already been created in ERP5, (see Tutorial "How to create Organisations"), we'll follow the organisation creation process to explain how to link a person to an existing organisation in ERP5.

First, you need to go to the page of the person you want to link to the existing organisation. You can reach this page by clicking on “Persons” in the “Modules”page.

Click on “Modules” on the sidebar  =>  Click on the “Persons”

Click on the line representing the person who's details you want to browse.

In our case, simply click on the line “John Doh”. Then you will reach the page of John Doh. If you don't see that line, please search for the person by typing "%John Doh%" in the searching tab (You can use Fuzzy Enquiry method in ERP5 base data list page to search for any information you need). After you press the enter button on the keyboard, the line of John Doh will appear if you have created the person correctly according to the previous tutorial "How to create Persons".

Now you should have landed on John Doh's View page, from which we are going to set a relation between him and his company which has been created, Z Company, as described in the introduction of this tutorial.

Just next to the “organisation” field, you can see a magnify glass. This is the tool in ERP5 which allows you to set relations between different items. Here you use the magnify glass to link a person to an organisation that has been previously created in ERP5. So just click on this magnify glass, then it will open a list of all existing organisations. In our example, we want to link John Doh to Z Company, we have opened the page of John Doh, now after we click on the magnifying glass, we can see different existing organisations (as shown in the following screenshot), and then choose Z Company that John Doh should be linked to.

Here are some points you need to pay attention to in this step

(1)Choose the appropriate organisation and Set relation:
Once the list of organisations is open, select the organisation you want to link the person with by clicking on the "arrow" in the last column of the organisation.

In our example, we want to link John Doh to Z Company, so we click the "arrow" of Z Company, as you can see on the screenshot.

(2)Check the "plane" icon:
After you have set the relation, the "magnify glass" icon will change to a "plane" icon (as you can see in the following screenshot), which means that you have set a relation between two items in ERP5, and this "plane" icon can lead you to the related subject. In our example, once the "magnify glass" turns into the "plane", John Doh is related to Z Company, and then you can check the relation by clicking on the "plane" to go to the page of Z Company.

1. Go to the organisation's page.

Now that the relation is set, we will check that the operation worked correctly. To do this, go to the appropriate organisation's page, and make sure that the person is related to it.

To go to the organisation's page, you can either use one of the methods you learned in the previous tutorials (eg, browse the base data in the ERP5 home page,  or use this new method - the "plane"

In our example, now that we have set the relation between John Doh and Z Company, in John Doh's page, we can click on the “plane” icon next to his organisation Z Company, which opens the View page of Z Company.

2. Check on the linked person's information line.

Check on the bottom of the organisation's page you have just reached and then click on the line of the appropriate person who has been linked to it. In our example, on the bottom of the page of Z Company, we can see the line “John Doh”with his basic information. This line confirms that John Doh has been linked to his company Z Company, as a Marketing Manager.

ERP5 allows you to create a new organisation directly from a person's View page, in this way you can link a person to the organisation directly.

Now let's see a new example: Lei XU is working for the Y Company. First, create the person, just like you learned to create a new person in the tutorial "How to create Persons". Now let's see how can we link him directly to the new company.

First you need to go the View page of the person you want to link to the organisation.

Once have created the person Lei XU, just type the name of his/her organisation in the “organisation” field. When you are ready, click the save button.

ERP5 will alert you that the organisation that you try to link your person to does not exist, but offers you to create it. If you accept, the related organisation will be created, and the person will be directly linked to it.
To do this, first browse the item menu circled in red, then click on “Create New Organisation: Y Company”. This will create the organisation and save the operation automatically.

You can now check that everything worked fine by going to the related organisation's page. To do this, you can use one of the methods you learned in the first tutorials, or simply click on the "plane" icon next to the "organisation” field. This will lead you to the related organisation's page (as described in the first part of this tutorial).