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Every objective of an active regulation has a detail page of its own. There you decide on applicability, set the implementation status, complete reviews, and link the objective to controls, documents, and assets.

Open the detail page

An objective’s detail page opens as a tab of its own, next to the tabs of the regulations—from a regulation’s list as well as from the Objectives tab of a control or a risk. It has three tabs: Overview, Relations, and Journal. You edit Applicability, Implementation Status, and Next Review together with the pencil and save them in one step. The regulation’s list and its KPIs then reflect the change.
Without write permission in the module, the pencil, the notes field with Complete Review, and the Link and Control buttons in the Relations tab are missing. You set permissions per module under Users.

Applicability

Applicability is set to Applicable or Not applicable. The Justification field applies to both decisions: with Applicable it records what makes the objective apply; with Not applicable it is required.
As long as no decision has been made on an objective, the toggle also shows the state Not Assessed. It disappears for good with the first saved decision—as with protection need on an asset, a decision once made can only be changed, not reverted. See Determine Protection Needs.
A Justification requires a decision: while an objective is still Not Assessed, an entered Justification can only be saved together with a decision. Clearing an existing Justification works without a decision.

Implementation Status

An applicable objective is Pending, Not implemented, Partial, or Complete. With Not applicable, the Implementation Status section does not appear; with Not Assessed, it stays locked until you decide on applicability. Which values count as a gap is explained in Understanding Compliance.

Review

Complete Review requires a note and is locked while you edit. The note is not part of editing with the pencil: it is saved only with the completion. Docusnap365 sets the review dates itself when you complete a review. Past reviews are listed with Reviewed On, Reviewed By, and Result in the table below.

Description

The Description section shows the full text of the objective, preceded by the source with the regulation’s publisher, key, and version. If an objective has no text, the section does not appear.

Relations

The Relations tab lists the linked controls, documents, and assets, and the objective’s cross-references. Link links existing controls, documents, and assets, including for Not applicable objectives. Control creates a new control and links it to the objective. Cross-references (type Cross-ref) cannot be opened. A row whose type is switched off in the data model, or for which you lack permission, shows a hint with the reason and cannot be opened; the relation can still be removed.
Deleting a relation removes only the relation—the control, document, or asset itself stays. With multiple rows selected, this runs in a batch: successful rows disappear even if some fail; a summary message names the ones that failed.

Journal

The Journal tab shows the change history of the objective’s assessment. Activate and Assess Regulations covers activation and bulk-editing several objectives. Understanding Compliance explains when an objective counts as complete, applicable, or as a gap. Documenting Evidence for Controls covers the evidence of a linked control.