Questionnaire Configuration form fields

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title: Questionnaire Configuration form fields
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# Questionnaire Configuration form fields

You can define distinct questionnaire for a distinct collection of vulnerabilities or remediation tasks by filtering the vulnerabilities or remediation tasks respectively.

The Questionnaire Configuration form appears when you select the **Design New Questionnaire** button in the configuration for Exception Management form for any one of the four applications.

<table id="table_tbz_5ws_gzb"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

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

Name

</td><td>

Name of the questionnaire.

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

Approval rule

</td><td>

Approval rule for which the questionnaire is applicable.-   **Exception request for vulnerability groups**
-   **Exception request for vulnerable items**
-   **False positive for vulnerability groups**
-   **False positive for vulnerable items**
-   **Questionnaire for compensating controls for vulnerable groups** for remediation task's risk reduction requests.
-   **Questionnaire for compensating controls for vulnerable items** for vulnerable item's risk reduction requests.

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

Description

</td><td>

Short description for the questionnaire configuration.

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

Order

</td><td>

Questionnaire with lowest order appears during the requests.

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

Active

</td><td>

Enabled by default, signifying that the questionnaire is in use.

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

Approval rule

</td><td>

The approval rule associated with the questionnaire configuration. The condition field is dynamically dependent on the table defined in the selected approval rule, enabling conditions to be applied to the correct finding or remediation task fields.

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

Condition

</td><td>

Condition for the records for which the questionnaire must appear.You can apply condition on all the fields of a vulnerable item and remediation task except **Reason**.

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

Questionnaire

</td><td>

Questionnaire that appears when a remediation owner is requesting an exception, false positive or risk reduction.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>