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title: Create or edit Application Vulnerability Response assignment rules
description: You can create rules to automatically assign application vulnerable items \(AVIs\) based on filter conditions. These rules assign AVIs as they are imported or manually created.
locale: en-US
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release: australia
product: Application Vulnerability Response
classification: application-vulnerability-response
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Assign application vulnerable items in Application Vulnerability Response automatically, Use, Application Vulnerability Response, Unified Security Exposure Management, Security Operations]
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# Create or edit Application Vulnerability Response assignment rules

You can create rules to automatically assign application vulnerable items \(AVIs\) based on filter conditions. These rules assign AVIs as they are imported or manually created.

## Before you begin

Role required: App-Sec Manager group

## About this task

With assignment rules, you define the condition of assignment and the order of execution. Once an AVI matches a rule condition, the assignment lookup stops. See [Filtering within Application Vulnerability Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/application-vulnerability-response/avm-filtering.md) for more information.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Application Vulnerability Response** > **Administration** > **Assignment Rules**.

2.  Click **New**.

3.  If **New**, fill in the fields on the form, as appropriate.

<table id="table_vks_thr_ns"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Name

</td><td>

Name of the group rule.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Active

</td><td>

Indicates whether the assignment rule is active.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Execution order

</td><td>

Order in which the rules are evaluated.

 High priority rules, items that need special handling, where risk is critical, or an AVI should be handled by regulatory compliance, to be run first. Next, run your general rules, where no special handling is required, and you know who should be responsible for them. Finally, create a default rule to assign AVIs to the group that will figure out what assignment group it should belong to. This group could add another rule to cover their decisions. This default rule would run last.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Description

</td><td>

Description of the assignment rule.

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">

Condition

</td></tr><tr><td>

Condition fields

</td><td>

Conditions that must be met.

</td></tr><tr><td>

New Criteria

</td><td>

Adds more condition filter fields to choose from.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Assign using

</td><td>

To automate the assignment of groups created based on this rule, choose one of the options available.

-   User group: Select a user group from the lookup table.
-   User group field: Select a user group field from the list menu.
-   Script: Create or edit a script.

**Note:** Creating or edit a script requires ServiceNow expertise.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>4.  Click **Submit**.

    New or updated rules are evaluated on the next import.