What is the purpose of the Type drop-down field on the Policy form?

[tsylte]

Can anyone share the purpose or source of the Policy Type field? It is a drop down, and I'd like to understand how the values are intended to be used. 

[Balaji Jagannat · Accepted solution]

It refer to the type of document and the data is coming from Choice (i.e GRC Choice) table with the following filter [new sn_grc.GRCChoiceUtils().getGRCChoices('type', current.sys_class_name)]

[tsylte]

I am also wondering what - if any - meaning or workflow is attached to the various types?

Do they come from a framework like NIST, for example?

[Phil Swann]

As Balaji says, this is from the sn_grc_choice table so entirely configurable

But, also worth noting when you publish your policy, in the KB, it will be created in a category that matches your type (or it will create a new category)

So KB , can browse under GRC and look for:

Policy, Procedure, Standard , etc

I have often used this with a customer and created an option called 'How To' and they use GRC to create their own KB articles very simply

[JohnJasinski]

Related reference:  

ISO 9001 document hierarchy