OADP - Navigation objects

We are trying to set up the OADP for our reporting structure.
It is based on 005 relationships. We are trying to achive something similar to MSS_PCR_SELECT view group - the "All employees" view. We are having problems when trying to control the "depth of structure" while defining the rules for the object selection.
That led us to dig into the standard MSS_PCR_SELECT view group. We are looking at MSS_PCR_SEL_ALL view with mss_pcr_sel1 object selection. The navigation object rules(mss_pcr_rule4) defined there, has a evaluation path of orgeh_t
with depth of structure '3'. - As per our understanding this should control the levels of org units that are shown when the user tries to navigate. So in this case, the user can only see 3 levels below. It does not happen here and the user can see all the org units that are lower in the structure - we are checking all standard stuff with all the authorizations.
Would like to know how it works for others here on this forum?
Not sure if we are not understanding this correctly or missing some config piece somewhere or is this a bug?
have read some threads about getting structural authorizations to achieve this - That can be an option but we are really trying to find out the flexibility/limitation of OADP

Siddharth,
Thanks for the response.
Now it looks more clear. I tried with depth '2' and the way in which the org units initially show up is different compared to the one with depth '3'.
Looks like we cannot use the navigation feature if we want to restrict the listing of employees. For ex. the "Direct Employees" view (mss_pcr_sel_dir) does not have a rule for navigation. In other words, if navigation is used, the user can drill down the tree to the lowest object.
We are trying to give different views. 1. All employees, 2. Direct employees, 3. Second level etc. for our custom 005 supervisor/subordinate relationships. For All employees and Direct employees we customized it similar to standard mss_pcr_select view group (where navigation is available for all employees and not for direct ones).
For the second level subordinates display, we are able to see the list display without the navigation rules.We wanted to give the option of navigating for the same, but looks like we cannot (if we give, all the lower levels can be navigated in the tree).
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