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alias: user-guide-create-setup-matrix
description: "This documentation guides users through creating and configuring a setup matrix object"
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# Create Setup Matrix

:lock: SetupMatrix.**Create**

:lock: SetupMatrix.**CreateTemplate**

:lock: SetupMatrix.**CreateFromTemplate**

## Overview

This operation is used to create a **Setup Matrix**. A template can also be created using a similar procedure and there is also the possibility of using a template to create the new object as well. This selection can be done in the main entity menu.

## Setup

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

## Preconditions

* The **Setup Matrix** does not currently exist in the system.

## Sequence of Steps

### Step 1: General Data

1. Provide a name for the **Setup Matrix**.
2. Optionally, provide a description of the **Setup Matrix**.
3. Select the Setup Matrix time scale (Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days).
4. Check the option *Use Zero In Diagonal* to use zero when transitioning from a Service to itself.
5. Select **Next** to continue to the *Services* configuration of the **Setup Matrix**.

![create_setup_matrix_step_one][create_setup_matrix_step_one]

### Step 2: Services

To add Services manually, select them from the panel on the left-hand side and they will be added to the list of the *Selected Services* on the right-hand side. You can filter the list to make it easier to add the Services.

Select **Next** to continue to the *Setup Matrix* configuration of the **Setup Matrix**.

![create_setup_matrix_step_two][create_setup_matrix_step_two]

### Step 3: Setup Matrix

Each Service selected in the previous panel is added to the list on the left hand side of the panel (*From Services*) and each of them have a relation to the services listed in the center part of the dialog (*To Services*). Select the *From* and the *To* services and enter the desired value in the specified time scale.

![create_setup_matrix_step_three][create_setup_matrix_step_three]

You can preview the matrix by pressing the *Preview* in the top right-hand corner of the dialog.

![create_setup_matrix_step_four][create_setup_matrix_step_four]

!!! info
	In case that the option Use zero in matrix diagonal has been selected, the diagonal is pre-filled with zeroes and its value cannot be changed so it won't be listed in the dialog.

Select **Create** to complete the operation and the new **Setup Matrix** will be created.

[create_setup_matrix_step_one]: images/create_setup_matrix_step_one.png
[create_setup_matrix_step_two]: images/create_setup_matrix_step_two.png
[create_setup_matrix_step_three]: images/create_setup_matrix_step_three.png
[create_setup_matrix_step_four]: images/create_setup_matrix_step_four.png