About mandates

A mandate is a regulation or framework that you must comply with. The Symantec Content Studio lets you create the custom mandates that fit your specific needs. You can also map custom mandates to control statements in the Content Studio. Any regulation or framework is a mandate.

A mandate is made up of one or more sections, each of which can optionally have one or more subsections.

A mandate has the following attributes:

Heading	Use the heading to assign a name to the mandate.
Prefix	Use to store any section number the mandate has. When the mandate is displayed in the Mandates area, the Content Studio displays the prefix, then the heading.
Levels	If the mandate has multiple levels, you can create and assign levels to the mandate or to the sections. A mandate and its subsections all use the same group of levels. If you edit levels in any part of a mandate, the levels change in every section.
Author	The user name that was logged on when the mandate was created.
Path	The path in the mandate list to the mandate or to the section.
Body	The text of the mandate or the section.
Statement mappings	A list of the statements that you have mapped to the mandate or the section.
Category	A list of the categories that you have assigned to the mandate or the section. Policies do not use categories, but they can be used to help you group like items in the Content Studio. You can group items with categories to make them easier for you to locate.