Relations and the Linker

Items can be linked to each other as well as to steps: a control mitigates a risk, a control implements a requirement, a rule enforces one, an application depends on another, a role owns an item. Open an item and use Link… under Relations.

• The Linker links many at once. Open it from Linker beside Registers in the explorer, or from a register’s page. It starts empty.
• Drag into a pane: a process, a map, an area or a folder from the explorer (or several you picked) for their steps, or a register for its items. Steps always sit on the left. Or use Or choose… in an empty pane.
• Each pane shows the hierarchy (the processes above each step, the groups above each item) and searches it. A step is found by what it already uses too: search “credit risk” for the steps that carry one.
• Pick on both sides (a group’s box picks everything under it), then Link. A ✓ shows what is already linked to everything picked on the other side, ◐ to some of it. Undo session takes it all back. What’s in the panes is kept until you close the browser tab.
• Signed-off processes, and processes you can’t edit, are left alone and listed: start a new revision to change them.

More on registers: risks, controls, systems

• Linking applications, risks and controls
• Groups, editing many items, importing and undo
• The matrix
• Insights: what needs attention

Try it in the free demo, or contact us.