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alias: user-guide-terminate-sampling-plan
description: "Terminate a sampling plan operation, requiring only existing and active plan preconditions"
---

# Terminate Sampling Plan

:lock: SamplingPlan.**Terminate**

## Overview

This operation is used to Terminate a **Sampling Plan**.  

## Setup

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

## Preconditions

* The **Sampling Plan** exists in the system and is in Active or Created state.

## Sequence of Steps

The Terminate Sampling Plan wizard can be called from the **Sampling Plan** page within the Business Data Group.

### Step 1: General Data

1. Select **Terminate** to perform the operation. All generic/smart table rows that reference the current object will be removed and will not be recovered if the object is unterminated at a later point.

For more information, see [[user-guide-terminate-and-unterminate]].

![terminate_sampling_plan][terminate_sampling_plan]

[terminate_sampling_plan]: images/terminate_sampling_plan.png