---
alias: user-guide-increase-maintenance-counters
tags:
- maintenance
description: "This documentation details increasing maintenance counters for activity orders associated with resources"
---

# Increase Maintenance Counters

:lock: MaintenanceActivityOrder.**IncreaseCounters**

## Overview

This operation allows you to increase the maintenance counters of **Maintenance Activity Orders** (**MAOs**) associated with a **Resource**, a **Container** or an **Area**.

!!! note
	  The same counter may be used multiple times in the same Resource in different MAOs.

## Preconditions

* The **Resource**, the **Container** or the **Area** exist, are Active, and have an associated **Maintenance Plan Instance**.
* The user must belong to the **Maintenance Plan Instance** Owner Role.
* At least one Event must be selected to ensure that at least one counter is incremented.

## Sequence of Steps

The Increase Maintenance Counters wizard can be called from the **Resource**, the **Container** or the **Area** page within the Business Data Group.

### Step 1

1. Go to the Maintenance view of the **Resource**, **Container**, or **Area**.
2. Select **Increase Counters** on the top ribbon to open the wizard.
3. For each Event you can increase values for counters - Quantity One and Quantity Two.
4. Verify other details.
5. Optionally, enter a Comment.
6. Select **Increase** to complete the operation.

![Screenshot showing a UI with an "Increase" button being selected to complete an operation.](images/increase_maintenance_counters.png)

!!! info
    When the Increase Maintenance Counters operation is not executed manually and is triggered by an external event, different Counter Types apply to different entities:

    * Count One - applies exclusively to Resources
    * Count Quantity One - applies exclusively to Materials
    * Count Quantity Two - applies exclusively to Materials

    For more information, see [[user-guide-update-schedule-counters#update-maintenance-activity-order-schedulecounters]].