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# Add impacted areas manually to a regulatory alert

# Add impacted areas manually to a regulatory alert {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Yokohama
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* Updated July 31, 2025
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

Add impacted areas such as citations, control objectives, policies, and more to your regulatory alerts. Adding impacted areas to a regulatory alert captures additional impacts that you identified and impacts that weren't
initially recommended.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn_grc_reg_change.user

For more information on related roles and regulatory alerts, see [Types of alerts, user roles, and states of regulatory alerts](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/69by3_lO3WwRzqaHxVX58Q "Different users perform various actions on the alert records based on the type of the alert.").

## About this task

Impacted areas can be added as part of accepted recommendations or can be manually added. For more information on adding impacted areas as part of a recommendation, see [Accept or dismiss recommendations for regulatory alert impacted citations](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/~~qwij3gt~MYc4rc6yX3mw "Accept recommendations to mark specific business areas as impacted, helping compliance practitioners capture and address relevant regulatory alerts for citations. Dismiss recommendations to filter out irrelevant or unnecessary information.").  
Note:  
Impacted areas can be added only to regulatory alerts of type Regulatory event. You can't add impacted areas to alerts of type Source document.

## Procedure

1. Navigate to one of the following locations:  
   * WorkspacesCompliance Workspace, select the list icon ![]() and then navigate to Regulatory alerts.
   * WorkspacesCompliance Workspace select the Regulatory Change Management dashboard icon ![]() and then in the Activity overview, Tracking, or Trends section, select any segment or value in an Alerts related widget to open the list of regulatory alerts with that state.
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2. Select the regulatory alert that you want to review recommendations for and navigate to the Impacted areas tab.
3. Select Add.
4. Select the type of impacted area, the record you want and then select Add.  
   The record you selected as an impacted area now appears in the Impacted areas list.  
   Note:  
   To confirm if impacted areas were added as part of a recommendation or manually, review the AI-assisted column in the Impacted areas list. "Yes" indicates a recommendation, while "No" indicates a manual addition.

## What to do next

You can initiate the implementation activity for impacted business areas of operations by setting the applicability of the regulatory alert to Yes or No. If the regulatory alert is
applicable, a new regulatory change task is automatically created. If a regulatory alert is not applicable, the alert's state is updated to Completed. For more information, see [Manage regulatory change tasks](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/ZowC~ncp90E96aoeNqNFCQ "Manage the regulatory change tasks that are associated with the regulatory event alert. When a business entity owner completes the impact assessment on the regulatory event alert, the user with the sn_grc_reg_change.user role reviews the assessment summary and marks the alert as applicable.").
**Related tasks**   

* [Activate Regulatory alert recommendation skills](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/3qkMcTshOMBxUvdLSGF7lA "Configure the recommendation skill from Now Assist to generate the recommendations of the impacted areas for a regulatory alert.")
* [Generate recommendations for regulatory alert impacted citations, control objectives, controls, and policies](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/UVan7RzyA2s4VylOo~EpmQ "Generate recommendations to identify and mark potential impact areas, such as citations, control objectives, controls, and policies for regulatory alerts using the corresponding regulatory alert impacted skill. Recommendations simplify the process of associating impacts and creating action tasks.")

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