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Why You May See Duplicate Objectives, Risks, or Controls in Audit Execution
Who is this article for?
Users getting ORCTs from Library
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In the Audit Execution screen, you may notice that an Objective, Risk, or Control appears more than once. This can happen when items from the hierarchy are added from the Library at different times.
Why This Happens
When you use Get from Library, the system pulls the selected item and any parent items into the audit.
If you retrieve different items that share the same parent—but you do so in separate actions—the parent is pulled in each time, resulting in duplicates.
Example
- You first add the Risk “Codes of conduct” from the Library.
Its parent Objective “Integrity and Ethical Values” is added automatically. - Later, you add the Risk “Tone at the top.”
The same parent Objective is added again.
This causes the Objective to appear twice in the Audit Execution hierarchy:
How to Avoid Duplicates
Instead of adding overlapping parts of the hierarchy separately:
- Retrieve the entire section of the hierarchy you need in one Get from Library action.
- For items that aren’t needed, set their Scope State to Set As Out Of Scope