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Adding new policies when recording approvers manually

Updated over 6 months ago

To add a new policy to your portal, you will need access to the Management Console and access to the Policy Management tab.

If you are recording the approval details manually within your portal, you will need to ensure that in your Policy Hub approval mode setting is set to Record approvers manually.*

In Policy Management, select Add policy which will open the policy information tab where you can start to complete the policy details as described below and Add Policy:

Title

Add the title of your policy

Scope

Select the appropriate scope for your policy: Global, Local or Local variation of global policy

Domain

Select the appropriate domain for your policy

Keywords (optional)

insert key words in relation to your policy, which can be used in the search facility making it easier for users to find a specific policy

Description (optional)

Add a description of your policy document, this will appear to the user on the left hand side when the policy is opened

Category

This is the category on the home page where the policy will appear for the user e.g. Human Resources

Sub-category

This is the sub-category where the policy will appear for the users e.g. category: Human Resources; sub-category: Recruitment

Policy Set

This is used to group your policies end user side under the same heading
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New Policy Set: If there are a number of policies, you wish to appear together in a specific order you should put them in the same policy set e.g. Global AML Policy; Additional AML Policy for US; Sanctions Policy
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Audience Groups

Select the Specific Audience Group field to either search or scroll through a list of available audience Groups. Click on an item to add it to your selection. To remove an item, click on it again from the list, or use the 'x' button next to the selected item. You can select more than one audience group using this method.

Policies can have more than one audience group who may need to access a policy.

Related Policies

(optional)

Select the Specific Related policies field to either search or scroll through a list of available policies. Click on an item to add it to your selection. To remove an item, click on it again from the list, or use the 'x' button next to the selected item. You can select more than one policy using this method.

Document Version number

Type in the relevant version number of your policy

Release notes

(optional)

Any details relevant to the assignment/launch/etc of this policy

Approvers (email list)

the email address of the person who approved the policy

Approval date

the date the version of the policy was approved

Policy Document PDF:

Upload the pdf version of your policy.
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Depending on your set up, you may also need to upload the Word version

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