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Decommissioned Controls still being available within the Test Form

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When Controls are decommissioned in the SOX Workspace, they are still available within the Test Forms experience.  In fact, you can even test the control without even realizing it is decommissioned.  If a user attempts to create a test form for a control that is decommissioned, can there be a prompt that says, "control is decommissioned, do you still want to test?" or something similar? Also, can we maybe even filter out all decommissioned controls within the Test Form area if we desire?  Currently, that option is not available. Or, can controls be "archived" so they won't show up in the Test Form area?  Just looking for a way to filter these out, as we do not want to delete our history of controls.  

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  • Bill Mickey

    This would also be very helpful within the new "Controls" experience.  Being able to filter out all decommissioned controls would be very helpful.  

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  • Liz Walters

    Hi Bill,

    Thank you for this feedback! I've shared it with our product team, and we will keep you updated on any advancements. 

    Happy Friday! 

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  • Udo

    Bill Mickey, You can filter out decommissioned controls by using the "Audit Program" filter option in the new Controls experience. You just need to ensure that your decommissioned controls are not assigned to your current year SOX program (which is unfortunately sometimes the case), see my post here: https://support.workiva.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/15849716975252-Why-get-decommissioned-controls-a-current-year-SOX-program-assigned-

    Your CSM may be help you with a quick check and data update, if necessary.

     

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  • Pernilla Osterlindh

    Any updates of this would be great since it´s giving us a lot of headache that decommissioned controls still can be tested (or or possible to create test script for) and also that they are visible in the Risk and Controls experience. Udo has mentioned that it´s possible to filter them away if they are not assigned to the Sox year. We don´t have decommissioned control assigned to the Sox year we have already removed that but unfortunately the field "Audit Program" don´t even exist in our Risk and Control experience so we can´t even filter on it.

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