Create or Edit an Assessment Plan

An assessment plan designates an assessment template and inherits its values, but refines its focus by selecting instances of the primary object for assessment. It may also designate a survey to be completed by assessors.

Use either of two methods to open the page to create an assessment plan.

Select the Create Assessment Plan quick action from the Risk Management springboard. (Depending on the number of quick actions available to you, you may need to select a Show More option on the springboard.)
In the Assessments work area, select the Assessment Plans tab to open an Assessment Plans page. Then select the Create icon.

To edit an assessment plan, open the Assessment Plans page, select the row representing a plan, and select the Edit icon. Or, click the name of a plan and, in a page to view details about it, click Actions > Edit Plan.

As you work with the assessment plan:

In the Details panel, set or modify these values:
- A name and, optionally, description for the plan.
- The template the plan is based on. You can select this only as you create the plan. Once you save or submit the plan, you can't modify this value.
  
  The plan inherits an activity type from the template you select. For a plan that applies to process or control assessment, the activity type correlates to in-scope values selected for object records, and so plays a part in determining what records are eligible to be included in a batch. If the activity type is Audit Test, the plan returns only process or control records for which the Audit Test in-scope value is selected. For any other activity type, the plan returns only records for which the Assessment in-scope value is selected.
- A status, either Active or Inactive. You can modify the status only as you edit a plan. When you create a plan, it's automatically active, and the Status field doesn't appear.
A Template Activities panel displays a row for the assessment activity in the template you selected for the plan. For this activity, you may select a survey that assessors are to complete:
- Select the activity (row) in the grid and click Edit.
- In a Survey Template dialog, select the survey template you want.
Optionally, use the Selection Criteria panel to create filters that select instances of the primary object. Each filter consists of a predefined attribute, one in a set of predefined operators, and a value that completes the filter. In the row for a Name attribute, for example, you may select a Starts with operator, type a string as an Attribute Value, and so search for objects whose names begin with the string you typed.
Use the Perspective Selection and Assignment Criteria panel to select perspective values:
- By default, a No Perspectives check box is selected. If you leave it selected, the plan returns only records of its primary object that are assigned no perspective values.
- If you clear the No Perspectives check box, click Add to open a Select Perspective Criteria dialog. It presents hierarchies mapped to the type of object you're assessing (Process, Risk, or Control). Select a perspective hierarchy and any number of values from it. Repeat this if you want to select values from additional hierarchies; the recommended limit is four. The plan then returns only instances of the primary object associated with the selected values.
- If you've selected perspective values, select or clear an Include Duplicate Records check box. This determines whether you plan to generate multiple assessment records for each instance of the primary object, one for each perspective value it's assigned.
An Additional Criteria panel contains a set of check boxes that correspond to control stratification values. By default, all stratification values are selected. Clear each value only if you want to exclude controls assigned that value.
Use a Preview Selections option to see what objects are returned by the criteria you set. Although it's available in the Selection Criteria panel, it applies to your settings there and in the Perspective Selection and Assignment Criteria and Additional Criteria panels as well.

You can set criteria for a plan, then modify them for any assessment batch initiated from the plan.
Save or submit the assessment plan.