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Associate Maintenance Plan With Material#

🔒 MaintenancePlan.AssociateMaterial

Overview#

The Associate Maintenance Plan with Material operation associates one or more Materials with a particular Maintenance Plan.

Setup#

No specific setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

Preconditions#

  • Material is Active and has no other identical Maintenance Plan currently associated with it.

  • Maintenance Plan has an Effective version.

Sequence of Steps#

The Associate Maintenance Plan with Material wizard can be called from the Maintenance Plan page within the Business Data Group.

A Material can also be associated with a Maintenance Plan directly from the Maintenance Tab of the Material page.

Step 1: Materials#

  1. Press the Associate button and from the dropdown options select Material to open the appropriate wizard.
  2. Select the Material to which the Maintenance Plan will be associated.
  3. Select the appropriate Base Date to set the date when the Maintenance Plan will start.
  4. Select the appropriate Schedule Mode (Earliest or Latest).
  5. If wished, apply the current definition to all the selected Materials by pressing the Apply Same Date To All Materials button
  6. Select Next.

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Note

For more information on Schedule Mode, see Maintenance Schedule Options.

Step 2: Activities#

  1. If wished, specify customized the Base Date and Schedule Mode for any of the Maintenance Activities that belong to the Maintenance Plan.

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Step 3: General Data#

  1. Select the owner role - the owner role represents the group of people who is able to manage the Maintenance Activity Orders under the Maintenance Plan Instance.
  2. Optionally specify a distribution list - to be used by the SendMaintenanceManagementNotificationMail rule.
  3. Press Associate to perform the operation.

Info

It is possible to define the default value for the Schedule Mode by editing the entry Context = MaintenancePlan.Associate, Element = ScheduleMode in the Generic Table GUIElementDefaultValue. The default value is Earliest.