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 master data task.
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Click New in the result list toolbar.
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Edit the compliance framework master data.
 - Save the changes. 
 
Enter the following properties for compliance frameworks.
Table 4: Compliance framework properties
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 Compliance framework  | 
 Name of the compliance framework.  | 
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 Parent framework  | 
 Parent compliance framework in the framework hierarchy. Select an existing compliance framework in the menu to organize compliance frameworks hierarchically.  | 
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 Manager/supervisor  | 
 Application role whose members are allowed to edit all company rules assigned to this compliance framework  | 
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 Description  | 
 Text field for additional explanation.  | 
 
    Additional tasks for compliance frameworks
After you have entered the master 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.
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In the Remove assignments pane, double-click the company policies whose assignment is to be deleted.
 - Save the changes.