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alias: user-guide-enable-and-disable
description: "This documentation outlines the steps to activate or deactivate a chart’s functionality"
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# Enable and Disable

:lock: Chart.**EnableDisable**

## Overview

These operations are used to activate or deactivate a **Chart**. When the **Chart** is disabled, it is not possible to post data to any of its logical charts.

## Setup

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

## Preconditions

* To enable the **Chart** it needs to be disabled when the transaction takes place.  
* To disable the **Chart** it needs to be enabled when the transaction takes place.  

## Sequence of Steps

### Enable

1. When the **Chart** is opened, select Enable.
2. Verify the **Chart** details.
3. Optionally, enter a comment.
4. Select **Enable** to complete the operation.

![enable_chart][enable_chart]

### Disable

1. When the **Chart** is opened, select Disable.
2. Verify the **Chart** details.
3. Optionally, enter a comment.
4. Select **Disable** to complete the operation.

![disable_chart][disable_chart]

[disable_chart]: images/disable_chart.png
[enable_chart]: images/enable_chart.png