How do I schedule my team's attestations?

[Andrew87]

How do I schedule my attests? My control owners need a clear idea ahead of time so they can resource plan for their attestations. Right now, there doesn't appear to be a "date" field to register. There is a "frequency" field where I can choose frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annual, etc.). But choosing that presumes there is a start date...why can't I just choose that?

Really, I am just looking for a way to schedule the attests to kick off so my colleagues can see what they need to attest to and when (and then have them get notified when it goes to attest mode). 

[Jorge G_]

There's a Scheduled Job that runs on a nightly interval that checks for this called "Control attestation nightly run". This will trigger the assessment on an automated basis. Unfortunately, there's no field at the moment that tells you when the next scheduled date is and that's something that would be helpful.

[John Gilaspy]

The Frequency field on Controls tells you how often to rerun the process, from Monitor back to Attest, and schedules each one using the scheduled job Jorge mentioned. So if you pick Quarterly, then approximately 90 days from each run, the next will be triggered. An enhancement showing the next date would be great!

[G Balaji · Accepted solution]

"Next run date" is currently not displayed in the control form. However, you could compute the next run date using frequency and business logic to show it as an info message using display business rule whenever control owner views control form. Please note that "control attestations nightly run" scheduled job runs on profile and not on controls, in Kingston version. If you're in Madrid, seems it works on controls(Community folks shared this info). Also it applies frequency on last attested(submission) date and not on last attestation created date which means it varies depending on last attested date. You could also consider defining another scheduled job to trigger change control state to Attest as per your business requirement.