---
alias: user-guide-abort-maintenance-activity-order
tags:
- maintenance
description: "This documentation details how to immediately stop an active maintenance activity order"
---

# Abort Maintenance Activity Order

:lock: MaintenanceActivityOrder.**Abort**

## Overview

This operation is used to abort a **Maintenance Activity Order** (**MAO**) and it is only available when the Execution State is In Progress.

## Preconditions

* The **MAO** exists, is Active, and is In Progress.
* The **MAO** Execution State is Released.
* You must either belong to the Maintenance Plan Instance Owner Role or meet one of the following conditions:

    * Be the assigned Owner Employee if defined.
    * Belong to the Owner Role if defined.

* The **MAO** must not be included in another **MAO**, that is, the Parent **MAO** property must be `null`.

## Sequence of Steps

### Step 1: Details

1. Select a **MAO** that matches the preconditions above.
2. Optionally, enter a comment.
3. Select **Abort Maintenance Activity Order** to complete the operation.

    ![Abort MAO](images/abort_maintenance_activity_order.png)

!!! info
    After aborting a MAO, the execution state changes to Released and you can [[user-guide-begin-maintenance-activity-order|Begin the Maintenance Activity Order]] once more. Additionally, if there are Checked-In Employees associated with the current MAO, the system will perform the [[user-guide-special-checkout-from-maintenance-activity-order]] operation.

    If the Maintenance Type of the MAO is set to Qualification and the Type Restriction Mode is set to Require None, all associated Qualification Checks change state to Started. For more information, see [[user-guide-create-maintenance-plan#step-3-adding-maintenance-activities|Adding Maintenance Activities]].