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title: Major incident workbench
description: The major incident workbench is a single-pane view for major incident managers, communication managers, and resolver groups. It aggregates actionable information to help these users manage major incidents.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/it-service-management/incident-management/major-incident-workbench.html
release: brazil
product: Incident Management
classification: incident-management
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Managing major incidents, Incident Management, IT Service Management]
---

# Major incident workbench

The major incident workbench is a single-pane view for major incident managers, communication managers, and resolver groups. It aggregates actionable information to help these users manage major incidents.

To navigate to the major incident workbench, open a major incident or a major incident candidate, and select **View Workbench** in the form header.

\[Omitted image "major-incident-workbench.png"\] Alt text: Major incident workbench view of a major incident record

**Note:** The groups widget shows groups and their member counts based on the **Assignment group** and **Assigned to** fields of the incident, incident communication plan, and incident tasks, and the members of an active conference call.

You can do the following actions using the options in the header section of the Major incident workbench:

-   To return to the incident form, select **View Form** in the workbench header.
-   If an incident is not yet in the **Resolved** state, the header displays the **Resolve** button. To resolve an incident, select **Resolve**.
-   When an incident isn't yet accepted as a major incident, the workbench header displays a list. The list displays options to promote the incident to a major incident or to reject the incident.
-   Use the chat icon \[Omitted image "MIM-chat.png"\] Alt text: Chat icon in the sidebar discussions to start a chat at the incident level. The chat is a record feed, so anything you write in the chat appears in the activity stream. For details about collaboration, see [Collaboration in Service Operations Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-service-management/service-operations-workspace/collaboration-sow.md).
-   Select the edit icon \[Omitted image "edit-icon.png"\] Alt text: to change the state of the incident.
-   Duration is an active timer that tracks the time since the creation of the incident. The timer stops when the incident is resolved.

-   **[Major incident workbench UI elements](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-service-management/incident-management/mi-workbench-ui-elements.md)**  
The major incident workbench displays task summaries, communication plan progress, conferencing information, and cause and resolution reports.
-   **[Associate a new post-incident report](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-service-management/incident-management/asso-new-post-incident-report.md)**  
Create your own post incident report and associate the UI page with the **View Complete Report** button under the **Post Incident Report** tab. Using the customized report, you can add information that is specific to your organization.
-   **[Add a communication plan in the workbench](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-service-management/incident-management/add-comm-plan-from-mim-workbench.md)**  
You can create a new communication plan or add a new communication task to an existing communication plan from the workbench. This UI action is helpful when you do not have an existing well-defined communication plan in the system.
-   **[Add similar incidents from the major incident workbench](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-service-management/incident-management/add-similar-inci-mim-workbench.md)**  
Add similar incidents to a major incident so that the support teams can work on the parent record for a coordinated response process.
-   **[Access on-call escalation path from major incident workbench](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-service-management/incident-management/access-escalation-path.md)**  
Access the on-call roster and escalation details from the major incident workbench to contact a support group.

**Parent Topic:**[Managing major incidents](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-service-management/incident-management/major-incident-management.md)

**Related topics**  


[Collaboration in Service Operations Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-service-management/service-operations-workspace/collaboration-sow.md)