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title: Create an action task
description: Create an action task to investigate, gather evidence, and perform an assessment so that you can analyze and assess a reported case in the GRC: Compliance Case Management application. Each case can have multiple case tasks that you can assign to different owners across multiple teams.
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product: Compliance Case Management
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last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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# Create an action task

Create an action task to investigate, gather evidence, and perform an assessment so that you can analyze and assess a reported case in the GRC: Compliance Case Management application. Each case can have multiple case tasks that you can assign to different owners across multiple teams.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_compliance\_ws.corporate\_compliance\_analyst

## About this task

After a case is reported to the compliance team, a compliance case analyst can create case tasks and assign the tasks to the relevant task owners. This way, the compliance case analyst can collaborate with various teams to investigate, assess, and capture observations that are related to the case.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Policy and Compliance** > **Compliance Workspace**.

2.  Select the list \[Omitted image "ws-list-icon.png"\] icon.

3.  In the List section, select **All Cases**.

4.  Open the case that you want to create an action task for.

5.  Select the Action task related list.

6.  Select **New**.

7.  On the form, fill in the fields.

    For a description of the field values on the action task form, see [Case task form](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/compliance-case-management/case-task-form.md).

8.  Select **Save**.

9.  To assign the task to the Action task owner, select **Assign task**.

10. In the confirmation dialog box, provide your notes.

11. In the confirmation dialog box, select **Move to assigned**.

    The state of the record changes to **Assigned** and the action task is assigned to the Action task owner.

12. To reassign the action task to another user before the action task is accepted by the action task owner that is specified by you, select **Reassign**.

    **Note:** You can only reassign the Assessment type of case tasks.

    1.  In the **Assignment group** field, select the relevant group.

    2.  In the **Action task owner** field, select a new owner.

    3.  In the Reassign Action task dialog box, select **Reassign**.


-   **[Case task form](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/compliance-case-management/case-task-form.md)**  
Use the Case Task form in the GRC: Compliance Case Management application to create a case task for a reported compliance case.

**Parent Topic:**[Compliance case task workflow](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/compliance-case-management/compliance-case-task-workflow.md)