---
alias: user-guide-associate-with-container
tags:
- maintenance
description: "This documentation outlines associating a maintenance plan with a container through a wizard interface"
---

# Associate Maintenance Plan With Container

:lock: MaintenancePlan.**AssociateContainer**

## Overview

The Associate Maintenance Plan with Container operation associates one or more **Containers** with a particular **Maintenance Plan**.

## Setup

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

## Preconditions

* **Container** 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 Container wizard can be called from the **Maintenance Plan** page within the Business Data Group.

A **Container** can also be associated with a **Maintenance** **Plan** directly from the **Container** page Maintenance View.

### Step 1: Containers

1. Press the *Associate* button and from the dropdown options select **Container** to open the appropriate wizard.
2. Select the **Container** 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 **Containers** by pressing the *Apply Same Date To All Containers* button
6. Select **Next**.

![mp_associate_containers_step_one][mp_associate_containers_step_one]

!!! note
    For more information on Schedule Mode, see [[tutorials-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**.

![mp_associate_containers_step_two][mp_associate_containers_step_two]

### 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-gt]]. The default value is `Earliest`.

[mp_associate_containers_step_one]: ../images/mp_associate_containers_step_one.png
[mp_associate_containers_step_two]: ../images/mp_associate_containers_step_two.png