Adding evidence keeps every claim in your compliance programme backed by a document or a reference: supporting files, certificates, screenshots, or links to documents kept in your own systems.
1. Where evidence can be added
Evidence drawers are available throughout the platform:
- Frameworks: on framework elements (domains, categories, subcategories, controls).
- Policies and Controls: on policies and their elements.
- Risk Registry: on risk assessments.
- Remediation Plans
- Risk Demands
- Third Parties
- Systems
- Business Profile
- Audit: on audit question responses.
2. Add a file
- Open the item you want to document: the framework element, policy, control, risk, remediation plan, demand, third party or system.
- Click the evidence icon next to it. The evidence drawer opens ("Manage Evidences for:" the item) and lists everything already attached.
- Choose Add Evidence, then drop your files into the upload zone or browse for them. You can upload up to 50 files at a time: images, video, audio, PDF, ZIP archives and plain-text files.
- Close the drawer once the upload completes; the evidence count on the item updates immediately.
3. Add a link
- In the same drawer, choose Add Link Evidence.
- Give the link a Name and paste the URL.
- Click Add Link. Only the link is stored; the document itself stays in your own system.
4. Good to know
- If an administrator has turned off Allow evidence file storage (Settings, Evidences), the drawers become link-only: "Links only. File storage is disabled in the workspace settings."
- Uploads count against the workspace's included 5 GB of storage; when the limit is reached, new files are blocked until storage is freed or extended from Settings, Billing.
- Adding evidence requires write permission on the module. On Policies and Controls, viewing evidence additionally requires the Policy Confidential Details permission.
Note: everything you attach here is also browsable centrally in the Evidences module, organised by module and searchable in the All Evidence Files view.