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alias: user-guide-automation-scheduled-action-create
description: "Describe the Create Scheduled Action wizard, including the general data, pre-conditions, acceptance gates, and post-action validations tabs."
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# Create Definition

The creation wizard has four tabs at the top: **General Data**, **Pre-Conditions**, **Acceptance Gates**, and **Post Action Validations**.

![Screenshot showing the Automation Scheduled Action Create wizard](../images/ASC_create_wizard.png)

## Steps

### 1. General Data

The **General Data** tab is where you configure the core behavior of the Definition. It contains the following sections:

- The **Definition** contains basic identification and validity settings for this Definition.
- The **Context** determines which **Automation Instances** this Definition applies to. When the Definition is saved, the system resolves the context and creates one task per instance found. Tasks are de-duplicated, so if the same instance appears more than once in the resolved list, only one task is created. See [[user-guide-automation-scheduled-action-context-resolution]] for guidance on configuring this field.
- The **Detector** defines what "ready" means for the instances in scope. The system evaluates the detector on every polling cycle and only proceeds when the result is `true`. See [[user-guide-automation-scheduled-action-detectors]] for guidance on configuring this field.
- The **Action** is the maintenance operation to perform on the instance once all conditions are met. Exactly one **Action** is configured per Definition, and it determines what the system will do to each target instances. See [[user-guide-automation-scheduled-action-action]] for guidance on configuring this field.
- Up to four **Notification** templates can be configured, one for each point in the task lifecycle. Each field accepts the name of an existing MES Notification Template. See [[user-guide-automation-scheduled-action##Notifications]] for guidance on configuring templates and available tokens.

### 2. Pre-Conditions

In the **Pre-Conditions** tab you can configure multiple or no **Pre-Conditions**. See [[user-guide-automation-scheduled-action-preconditions]] for guidance on configuring this field.

### 3. Acceptance Gates

In the **Acceptance Gates** tab you can configure multiple or no **Acceptance Gates**. See [[user-guide-automation-scheduled-action-acceptance-gates]] for guidance on configuring this field.

### 4. Post Action Validations

In the **Post Action Validations** tab you can configure multiple or no **Post Action Validations**. See [[user-guide-automation-scheduled-action-post-action-validations]] for guidance on configuring this field.

### 5. Save

Select **Save** to create the **Scheduled Action** definition. The system then runs **Context Resolution** and creates tasks for each entity instance.

!!! Warning "You must enable the Scheduled Action"
    After creating the Scheduled Action definition, you must enable it through the button on the top ribbon.