Compliance frameworks
Compliance frameworks are used for classifying attestation policies, compliance rules, and company policies according to regulatory requirements.
Compliance frameworks can be organized hierarchically. To do this, assign a parent framework to the compliance frameworks.
To edit compliance frameworks
- Select the Company Policies > Basic configuration data > Compliance frameworks category. 
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Select a Compliance Framework in the result list and run the Change main data task. - OR - Click  in the result list. in the result list.
 
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Edit the compliance framework main data. 
- Save the changes. 
Enter the following properties for compliance frameworks.
Table 4: Compliance framework properties
| Compliance framework | Name of the compliance framework. | 
| Parent framework | Parent compliance framework in the framework hierarchy. Select an existing compliance framework in the menu for organizing compliance frameworks hierarchically. | 
| Manager/supervisor | Application role whose members are allowed to edit all company rules assigned to this compliance framework | 
| Description | Text field for additional explanation. | 
 
    Additional tasks for compliance frameworks
After you have entered the main data, you can run the following tasks.
You can obtain a summary of all a compliance framework's policy violations in the Policy violation overview report.
 
    Compliance framework overview
You can see the most important information about a compliance framework on the overview form.
To obtain an overview of a compliance framework
- Select Company Policies > Basic configuration data > Compliance frameworks. 
- Select the compliance framework from the result list. 
- Select the Compliance framework overview task. 
 
    Assigning company policies
Use this task to assign company policies to the selected compliance framework.
To assign company policies to compliance frameworks
- Select the Company Policies > Basic configuration data > Compliance frameworks category. 
- Select the compliance framework from the result list. 
- Select the Assign company policies task. 
- In the Add assignments pane, double-click the company policies you want to assign.
- OR - In the Remove assignments pane, double-click the company policies whose assignment is to be deleted. 
- Save the changes.