One of YOUnite’s key design solutions is the ability to group an organization’s data by the organization’s structure (e.g. divisions, departments, districts, schools, etc.) and create relationships between these groups. YOUnite calls these groupings zones. An example might be found in a college school system. For instance, YOUnite could mirror a college system’s structure where the top-level zone is the Chancellor’s Office, with college district zones in the middle and individual college zones underneath. 

Zones contain users, groups, roles, permissions, adaptors, logs, ACLs, and other resources. Zones are associated with each other in a hierarchical structure with parent, sibling, and child zones. In the example of the college school district, the schools within that district might be considered child zones of the district (parent zone).