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title: "User Permission based on Hierarchy"
space: "Frappe HR"
url: "https://docs.frappe.io/hr/user-permission-based-on-hierarchy"
updated: "2026-02-04"
---

**Question:**

How to configure User Permissions, so that an Employee can view his Expense Claims, and also of ones who report to him/her?

**Answer:**

In the Employee master, for each Employee, you can define who does he/she reports to. Based on the Reports To defined, the Employee hierarchy is built as well.

![](https://docs.erpnext.com/files/14Khhti.png)  


**Employee Hierarchy**

Also, one a User is linked with the Employee, it creates a User Permission as follows. As per this User Permission, Employee will be allowed to review his/her own document created in the HR module + the document which are created for Employees reporting to hm/her.

![](https://docs.erpnext.com/files/wRl6sKW.png)  


As per this configuration, when an Expense Claim is being created by the User reporting to Kenneth, it will also be accessible to Kenneth as well.

![](https://docs.erpnext.com/files/4L4Co0O.png)  


Can you please ensure that seniors Employee ID is updated as Reports To in the Employee's who report to him/er? After that, manager should be able to view the Expense Claims and other documents (like Leave Application, Appraisal etc.) made for his/her sub-ordinates.