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title: Create or add issues on a processing activity
description: Create issues or add existing issues for a processing activity. Associating issues to a processing activity helps you to identify and prioritize remediation actions. Relating issues reduces the number of issues customers need to manage, thus improving the overall organizational efficiency in management of these issues.​
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/governance-risk-compliance/privacy-workspace/create-or-manage-issues-on-a-pa.html
release: australia
product: Privacy Workspace
classification: privacy-workspace
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Use, Privacy Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
---

# Create or add issues on a processing activity

Create issues or add existing issues for a processing activity. Associating issues to a processing activity helps you to identify and prioritize remediation actions. Relating issues reduces the number of issues customers need to manage, thus improving the overall organizational efficiency in management of these issues.​

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_privacy.analyst \(who owns the processing activity\) or sn\_privacy.manager

## About this task

Issues get created when there are control attestation failures. You can also manually add or create multiple issues for a processing activity. You can also map one issue to multiple processing activities. If you create an issue for a processing activity from the Privacy Workspace, the **Issue source** field is set to **Ad-Hoc**.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Privacy Workspace** > **Processing activities** > **All processing activities**.

2.  Select and open the processing activity to which you want to add issues.

3.  Select the More related list.

4.  Select **Issues**.

5.  Select **Add**.

    1.  Select the issues to add.

    2.  Select **Add**.

6.  To create an issue, refer to the issue creation form.

7.  Select **Save**.


**Parent Topic:**[Using Privacy Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/privacy-workspace/using-privacy-mgmt.md)

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[Issue workflows](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/grc-common-functions/issue-workflows.md)