Adding comments to assessments

Add comments and work notes to an assessment to clarify questions or other aspects of the assessment. Owners, contributors, readers, and administrators can add comments while the assessment is active. After the assessment is cancelled, existing comments and work notes remain visible but read-only.

Before you begin

Role required: sn_smart_asmt.actor, sn_smart_asmt.assessment_admin, or sn_smart_asmt.assessment_reader. To post a work note, your user account must also have one of the roles configured in the Worknotes roles field on the template category.

Procedure

1. Navigate to your workspace and then to your list of assessments.
   Here’s an example of how to navigate to this list in the Compliance Workspace.

   1. Navigate to All > Policy and Compliance > Compliance Workspace.
   2. Select the tasks icon .
   3. Select the Control attestations > Smart Assessments on the left panel.
   4. The smart assessments list is displayed.
2. Select the assessments in which you want to add a comment.
3. From the contextual sidebar, select the Comment icon .
4. Provide your comment in the Comment field.
5. Select Post Comments.
   The comment appears in the comment list.