---
title: Manage questionnaire contributors and ownership
description: Add or remove contributors for a questionnaire request, or transfer questionnaire ownership to another contact, so the right team members can collaborate on and submit the questionnaire.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/governance-risk-compliance/third-party-risk-management/tprm-portal-manage-contributors.html
release: australia
product: Third-party Risk Management
classification: third-party-risk-management
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-06-03"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Third-party portal contact roles and permissions, Manage the third-party portal, Third-party Risk Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
---

# Manage questionnaire contributors and ownership

Add or remove contributors for a questionnaire request, or transfer questionnaire ownership to another contact, so the right team members can collaborate on and submit the questionnaire.

## Before you begin

**Important:**

This task applies to Third-Party Risk Management \(TPRM\) with Smart Assessment Engine \(SAE\) usage only. Questionnaire contributor and ownership management may differ in Classic TPRM environments.

Role required: questionnaire owner for the specific questionnaire request.

## About this task

Use the **Manage Contributors** action to give additional team members access to help complete the questionnaire. Use the **Reassign** action to transfer ownership—for example, when the current owner is unavailable or when a different person needs to submit the questionnaire.

Only the current questionnaire owner can use the **Manage Contributors** and **Reassign** actions. Other contacts must request ownership or contributor access from the questionnaire owner.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to the **Assessments** tab.

2.  Open the questionnaire request.

3.  Choose the action based on what you need to do.

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Goal

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Steps

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**Add or remove contributors**

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In the right panel under **Contributors**, select **Manage**. In the **Manage contributors** dialog, select contacts to add or remove, then select **Save and close**. Use **Sectional access** to assign contacts to specific sections of the questionnaire only.

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**Transfer questionnaire ownership**

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Open the overflow menu \(**⋮**\) and select **Reassign**. Select the new owner and confirm. After reassignment, the new contact becomes the questionnaire owner and can submit the questionnaire.

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</table>    If the previous questionnaire owner needs continued access after ownership is reassigned, use **Manage Contributors** to add them back as a contributor. Ownership reassignment completely removes the previous owner's access; they are not automatically added as a contributor.


## What to do next

Notify new contributors or the new questionnaire owner so they know they have been added to the questionnaire.

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