Multiple Controls via One Indicator

[taylordupre]

Can one control indicator adjust the compliance status for multiple controls? 

Lets say that one control is dependent on another can you have a control indicator that if failed all the related controls would also fail?

[Matthias Ferstl]

Hi Taylor,

the answer is: Not in OOB, and try to avoid to play around with this!

Lets say you have 5 refrigerators and your control objective is "Does this refrigerator have electrical power?"
You can check the refigerators if the light is turning on, when you open the door.

The lightbulb is your indicator. But you need 5.

This is where Indicator Templates comes into play, that are connected to a Control Objective.

The "check lightbulb" Indicator Template is connected to that Control Objective and creates for every Control of this Control Objective an indicator "check lightbulb". Another Indicator (Template) could be "Check temperature"... and so on.

The status "compliant" or not is not directly determined by the indicator, but set if one or more indicators have issues (that happens if they do not pass their checks).

So you shoud clearly avoid building something that "forces" the compliance status and breaks that logic.

[Matthias Ferstl]

Adding something:
You could create automated indicators with scripted indicators.

Lets say you have a power socket and you want the refigerator "has power" controls switch to "not compliant", if someone finds out that that socket is broken.

Build indicator templates for the refigerators, type "scripted" and build a script that filters for "issues" regarding the power socket, or indicator results of the power socket.
If you scripted it right, each time the power socket says "no power" the refrigerators also will turn "non compliant".

Kind regards