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alias: tutorials-sched-holds
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- scheduling
description: "This documentation outlines scheduling rules for materials with existing and future holds"
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# Scheduling Holds and Future Holds

Scheduling can take into consideration possible holds and future holds that have been placed on Materials.

## Holds

Materials that are currently on hold can be treated one of two ways, according to the Holds Processing Mode property, defined at the Schedule level:

* Included: Materials with holds will be considered in Scheduling normally.
* Excluded: Materials with holds will be excluded from Scheduling.

## Future Holds

Materials that have future holds can be treated one of two ways, according to the Future Holds Processing Mode property, defined at the Schedule level:

* Ignore: Materials will be scheduled normally, as if the future holds did not exists.
* Stop: Materials will be scheduled only partially:
* If the first future hold which the Material will be subject to is of state Queued, it will scheduled up until the previous Step of that future hold.
* If the first future hold which the Material will be subject to is of state Processed, it will scheduled up until the Step of that future hold.