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alias: user-guide-special-manage-future-actions
description: "This documentation details managing and maintaining future actions within a defined step"
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# Special Manage Future Actions

:lock: Step.**SpecialManageFutureActions**

## Overview

The **Special Manage Future Actions** is used to maintain Future Actions for the **Step**, including Future Actions created by other users.

## Setup

Note that the configuration `/Cmf/System/Configuration/MaterialTracking/FutureActions/Hold/AllowDuplicateReasons` controls the behavior of duplicated holds. There are three possible values for this setting:

* No (default) - does not allow duplicate hold reasons for the same hold context.  
* Yes - allows duplicate hold reasons for the same hold context, provided that the hold reason supports multiple concurrent instances (in case that this property is changed later at the hold reason, it will not have an effect on existing future holds).  
* YesUniqueComments - same as Yes, but the system will additionally check that the comments are unique for each hold context, and, for each hold reason, that the comments are not duplicated.  

## Preconditions

* The Step exists and it is **Active**.

## Sequence of Steps

For more information, see [Manage Future Actions](manage_future_actions.md).