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title: "About Conditions"
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# About Conditions

When creating Policies, organizations may find it useful to apply restrictions to the Policy. A common type of restriction is a Condition, which provides the organization with the ability to allow or restrict access based on environmental parameters such as:

- **Date & Time**: for example, allow weekend activity, restrict access based on time of day, etc.
- **IP**: allow or restrict based on a preconfigured IP range
- **Identity Attribute**: allow or restrict access based on an attribute associated to the Identity. For example, all users of a specific department; all users within a specific location (country, city, region, etc.); all users with a specific title.
- **Request Attribute**: allow or restrict access based on the value of a specific request parameter.

## Predefined and Generic Conditions

The Platform supports two kinds of Conditions:

- **Predefined Conditions:** These are the built-in Date & Time, IP, Identity Attribute, and Request Attribute Conditions. They are available for the Dynamic Authorization Service and for any Application without Generic Condition Templates.
- **Generic Conditions:** These Conditions use Generic Condition Templates associated with an Application. The templates define which attributes and values you can use. Zscaler currently supports Generic Conditions.

When you create a Condition, the Application you select determines which Condition types you can choose. For more information, see [Managing Conditions](/v1/docs/managing-conditions#available-condition-types).

You can create Conditions:

- On the Assets & Conditions tab of the Policies Workspace (formerly Authorization Workspace)
- While creating a new Policy in the [Policy Wizard](/docs/creating-policies#policy-wizard) or [Policy Canvas](/v1/docs/policy-canvas).