Privacy Case overview page

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Privacy Case overview page

    The Privacy Case overview page in the Privacy Case Management application provides a comprehensive view of all critical details related to a privacy case. It enables you to monitor the case’s description, status, schedules, milestones, tasks, issues, and attachments, helping you manage privacy cases efficiently throughout their lifecycle.

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    Key Features

    • Description Section: Captures detailed case information such as purpose, actions, timeline, applicable regulations, and relevant evidence or documents. This helps users understand the case context and take informed actions.
    • State Section: Displays the workflow states of a privacy case (e.g., New, Triage, Investigate, Resolve, Post case review, Close). These states represent the current status and can be configured by a privacy case administrator to match your organizational processes.
    • Case Schedules and Milestones Section: Shows key dates and milestones on a timeline, including case creation, discovery, occurrence, investigation milestones, breach analysis dates, closure, and duration. It allows filtering of events to focus on relevant timelines and track progress against service level agreements.
    • Case Tasks Overview Section: Summarizes case tasks by total number, overdue tasks, tasks due in the next seven days, active tasks by state, and tasks by type, enabling effective task management and prioritization.
    • Tracking Section: Displays the count of open issues, overdue issues, and issues due within the next seven days, facilitating issue monitoring and resolution.
    • Attachments Section: Allows uploading and viewing of files related to the case, ensuring all relevant documentation is accessible in one place.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    This overview page consolidates all essential privacy case information into a single interface, making it easier for your teams to track case progress, meet compliance deadlines, manage tasks, and maintain complete documentation. The configurable workflow states and timeline filters allow customization to fit your organization's privacy processes, ensuring visibility and control over case handling from initiation to closure.

    The Privacy case overview page shows details, such as description, state, schedule and milestones, case tasks, and issues related to the case in the Privacy Case Management application.

    The Privacy Case Management overview related list includes the following sections:
    • Description
    • State
    • Case schedules and milestones
    • Case tasks overview
    • Tracking
    • Attachments

    Description section

    The Description section includes the detailed information that you can fill in when you’re creating a privacy case. For example, you can add the purpose, action being taken, time line, applicable rules and regulations, and any relevant evidence or documents. By using this section, you can understand the context of the case and take the necessary steps to resolve it.

    State section

    The State section includes the workflow states of a privacy case. For example in this section, you see various stages of the privacy case, such as New, Triage, Investigate, Resolve, Post case review, and Close. These states determine the status of the case. A privacy case administrator can configure these states in the Privacy Case Management application. For more information, see Define the workflow states for a privacy case.

    Case schedules and milestones section

    The Case schedules and milestones section includes the details on all the milestones or events during the case life cycle in a time-line range. In this section, you can see an outline of the key events, such as the date when the case was reported, occurred, discovered, or closed. You can also filter the events to view the following options on the time-line range after you select the Show events option:
    Case creation date
    Date when the case was created.
    Date of discovery
    Date when the case was discovered.
    Date of occurrence
    Date when the case occurred.
    Milestone
    Dates related to the investigation remediation milestones.
    Breach
    Dates related to the breach analysis.
    Today
    Current date on the time line.
    Case closure
    Date when the case was closed or met the case closure service level agreement (SLA).
    Case duration
    Date when the case was created to the last milestone date.
    The following example shows the options available after you select the Show events option.
    Figure 1. Case schedules and milestones
    Events available in case schedules and milestones.
    Note:
    The options that are displayed after you select the Show events option are limited to the events and milestones that are available for the case.

    Case tasks overview section

    The case task overview section includes the following subsections:
    Tasks
    Total number of case tasks, any overdue case tasks, and case tasks that are due in seven days.
    Ongoing tasks by state
    Number of active case tasks by the states.
    Tasks by type
    Number of active case tasks by the case type.

    Tracking section

    The Tracking section displays the following information:
    • Number of open issues for a privacy case
    • Number of overdue issues
    • Number of issues due in the next seven days

    Attachments section

    The Attachment section enables you to upload a file as an attachment to a case. In this section you can find all the attachments that have been added.