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# Enforcing follow-ups are completed based on priority (policies)

### Introduction

You can use policies to define rules about how your organization completes follow-ups, however, you may want to configure this further based on the priority of the given follow-up.

This helpful article walks through creating a new policy that enforces that urgent follow-ups are completed within 3 days of the incident being resolved, and follow-ups with any other priority have 7 days to be completed.

### Steps

Head over to [Settings → Policies](https://app.incident.io/~/settings/policies), and click [New Policy](https://app.incident.io/~/settings/policies/create).

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Select `Follow-ups` as the **Policy type**, and give the policy a **Name** and **Description**.

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Within the **At what point should we enforce this policy? → SLA days** section, click the **Use an expression** button.

Select the `If... else...` expression type, and add a new expression rule:

* If `Follow-up → Priority is one of Urgent`, return `3`
* If no rule conditions are met, return `7`

This expression states that if a follow-up has a priority of `Urgent` then it should be completed within 3 days, and for any other priority the follow-up should be completed in 7 days.

Click the **Add** button to save the expression.

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Within the **Follow-up requirements** section, create a new requirement:

* `Follow-up → Status is not one of Outstanding`

This requirement is enforcing that for the policy to be fulfilled, the follow-up must have a status that is not `Outstanding`, thus validating that it has been completed.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/incidentio-18bb4170/-p0k-NlQGgmni0z8/images/help-centre/enforcing-follow-ups-are-completed-based-on-priority-(policies)/screenshot-5.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=-p0k-NlQGgmni0z8&q=85&s=4745629223f16cb1a1157b627bbd3f89" alt="" width="2054" height="422" data-path="images/help-centre/enforcing-follow-ups-are-completed-based-on-priority-(policies)/screenshot-5.png" />

Click the **Create** button to save the policy.
