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alias: user-guide-clone-maintenance-plan
entityname: Maintenance Plan
description: "This documentation outlines cloning a maintenance plan, creating a new identical version"
---

# Clone Maintenance Plan

:lock: MaintenancePlan.**Clone**

## Overview

This operation is used to clone an existing **Maintenance Plan** into a new **Maintenance Plan** with a different name and identical characteristics.  

## Setup

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

## Preconditions

* The **Maintenance Plan** exists in the system.

## Sequence of Steps

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### Step 1: General Data

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![clone_maintenance_plan](images/clone_maintenance_plan.png)