Grouping Indicator Tasks in GRC Compliance

[manish_verma3]

Hi,

First question in this forum!

I am currently working with a cline on GRC implementation and they have a requirement to group indicator tasks so they can respond to one tasks and others can get auto populated. I see that we can group attestations but not indicator tasks OOB, grouping of Indicators are possible using PA but it is more from reporting purposes. I was wondering if this can be done at the response stage.

Thanks!

[SanjivMeher]

I dont think there is anything out of box. But I would like the understand the scenario, when this may happen.

Why not create just one indicator task for all the task the user needs to respond to instead of creating several tasks?

[manish_verma3]

Hi Sanjiv,

The usecase is as follows

The controls are auto created using entity type mapping to control objectives (CO). CO has an indicator template which creates and indicator and at the scheduled interval the indicator task gets created and is assigned to the Control Owner. As this module is being implemented in a financial institution the CO will have potentially up to 100 control indicator tasks that they have to populate at any given point in time. Grouping them and creating one response will make their life easier rather than doing it one by one. 

I am keen on understanding how can you create one task (effectively a parent response) which can apply to all the child indicator tasks.

Thanks!

[SanjivMeher]

Hi Manish,

You need to build something custom for this. May be an Indicator Group Task Table. A record in this table is created every time a first indicator task is created for the team. All other similar tasks gets linked to the Group Task as child. And you need to write a logic in the Group task table, to auto-close all the child when the Group Task record is closed.

[Sebastien Fix]

Have you considered using metrics instead? They do the same thing as indicators (verify compliance) but you can answer few of them in a table format (Vancouver upgrade)