How to Add an Issue?

On your home page, find the Issues tab to view a high-level list of all the Issues in your account. On this page, you can do the following:

1. Click on the Create Issue icon to create a new Issue.

These are the information you need to when you create an Issue.

Issue Name: enter a keyword or brief description to identify the Issue.

Labels: Assign any relevant labels to your Issue. You can also create a new label and assign it to your Issue in this field. Note that this only applies the label(s) to the Issue. To learn how to apply labels to content such as a bill or regulation please read How to Add a Label?

Share with... Here, you will choose whether this Issue will be an Organization, Group, or Personal Issue. Want to know more? Click What is the difference between Organization, Group, and Personal Issues?

Priority: Choose either Low, Medium, High or None.

Impact: Enter a value or brief statement of the Issue's potential effect on your organization, business, or cause. Please limit your Impact statement to 250 characters. 

Lead: Provide the name of the person or team that is the point of contact, expert, and/or decision maker for anything relevant to this Issue.

Summary: Place a note here, or a description of the Issues you're creating.

Cover Photo: Upload or drag-and-drop an image that will become the banner for the Issue. You may crop the image or choose a different image before clicking Complete Crop to confirm your selected image.

Wide images work best, with dimensions of 1360 x 160 providing the clearest resolution. Images cannot be more than 35MB in size. Below is a sample image that meets the requirements.

To remove an image and return to a blank space, please contact support@fiscalnote.com for assistance.

Press "Save" to complete the process and add the Issue to your Issues homepage. If you already have multiple Issues on the homepage, then your new Issue will appear within the alphabetized list of Issues.

Note: We are constantly rolling out updates and making improvements to the platform. Please help us keep the Help Center up to date by reporting any information that may need some updating at support@fiscalnote.com.