Scheduling area access reviews

2026-02-12Last updated

To ensure security compliance and audit readiness, Site owners can set up area access reviews to occur at scheduled intervals. You can also start an area access review manually if required.

Before you begin

  • Make sure that the site is not already part of another review.

What you should know

  • Site owners can define a review schedule for one or multiple areas under their site.

Procedure

  1. From the homepage, click Organization > Access reviews .
  2. Click Schedule access review.
  3. In the Select review type dialog, select Area access review.
  4. In the Area access review configuration dialog, enter a name for your area access review.
  5. Search for or select the site for the review.
  6. Search for or select the areas to include.
  7. (Optional) Select Generate role access reviews to automatically trigger a role access review when a scheduled access review is triggered.
    This setting is enable by default and creates role access reviews for all roles with access to the selected areas. To schedule role access reviews independently, see Scheduling role access reviews.
  8. (Optional) Select Enable review verification to add a second-level review to the access review, and enter the names of your verifiers.
    You can add up to 20 verifiers in the Verifiers field. Only one verifier from the list is required to complete verification for the access review.
  9. Select the Schedule reviews frequency that you require.
    Best Practice:
    To ensure your security compliance and audit readiness, schedule your site access reviews so to automatically trigger on the day, week, or month before corporate audits or site safety checks.
    You can manually start an access review by selecting the Now schedule. Typically, manual access reviews are used to test reviews before they are scheduled to check that all participants are properly set, or to force a review after an incident.

    The options that are displayed vary depending on the selected frequency.

  10. Select when to trigger site access reviews:
    Yearly
    Select a day and one or more months.
    Monthly
    Select a day.
    Weekly
    Select one or more weekdays.
  11. Select the review time.
    The time zone of the site is used for all scheduled review times.
  12. (Optional) Add details in the Notes field.
    A server room review scheduled to occur Yearly at quarterly intervals, on the first day of the month at 08:00. The review will generate a role access review and requires verification.
    Site access review schedule dialog in ClearID showing server room yearly schedule example.
    Note:
    Access reviews scheduled for Now do not appear on the Scheduled Access reviews page. Instead, they are immediately displayed in the My tasks view of the relevant reviewers.
  13. Click Create.
    The scheduled access reviews are displayed in the Access reviews page.
  14. (Optional) Click an area access review in the list to see the schedule details.
    To display all access reviews, you can click Go to access reviews report.

Example

After you finish

Complete your access reviews when required: