---
alias: user-guide-set-effective-maintenance-plan
tags:
- maintenance
description: "This documentation explains how to designate a maintenance plan version as effective, impacting scheduled activities"
---

# Set Maintenance Plan Effective

:lock: MaintenancePlan.**SetEffective**

## Overview

Setting a Maintenance Plan Version effective has an impact on the **Maintenance Plan** Instances that refer to this plan. Specifically, for all existing instances:

* New activities will be scheduled
* Existing activities will be kept or re-scheduled (as specified by the user)
* Removed activities which are not *InProgress* or *WaitingForAcceptance* will be terminated

## Setup

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

## Preconditions

* **Maintenance Plan** version is not the current *Effective* version.
* If the **Maintenance Plan** scope is set to Qualification, all configured Assignment, Execution, and Verification points must remain valid for the configured Selection Mode (**Step**, **Flow Path**, or **Logical Flow Path**).

## Sequence of Steps

To set a new new version effective, it's necessary to select **Set Effective** in the top ribbon and complete the Wizard as described below:

### Step 1: General Data

1. The Wizard will present the list of Maintenance Activities included in the current **Maintenance Plan** version and for each activity it will be indicated the relative inclusion status of the activity when compared to the effective version. This status can be one of three:

* Added
* Kept
* Removed

!!! info
	An activity is compared to the previous **Maintenance Plan** version only by its name.

1. The user can choose to reschedule existing activities which are kept - note that in this case, all the kept activities which are not *InProgress* or *WaitingForAcceptance* will be re-scheduled with the respective timers and counters reset.
2. Optionally enter a comment.
3. Select **Set Effective** to complete the operation.

![Screenshot showing a UI with fields related to setting an effective maintenance plan.](images/set_effective_maintenance_plan.png)