How You Close a Maintenance Work Order

After performing all the activities on a maintenance work order, you must close the work order so as to prevent any further updates to it. The costing and variants of the work order are also posted upon closing of the work order. You can use the Close action from the Mass Actions menu in Maintenance Work Orders page to close the work orders. Apart from that, you can use the Mass Close Maintenance Work Orders scheduled process to mass close the completed maintenance work orders.

You can run the scheduled process on the Mass Close Maintenance Work Orders page. The page is accessible from the Tasks pane by clicking the Close Maintenance Work Orders link in Work Management.

The Mass Close Maintenance Work Orders page provides the following parameters that you can select from or enter to run the scheduled process.

Parameter	Description
From Work Order Number	The first work order number in the range of work orders that you want to close.
To Work Order Number	The last work order number in the range of work orders that you want to close.
From Work Order Start Date	The first date in the range of start dates for the work orders that you want to close.
To Work Order Start Date	The last date in the range of start dates for the work orders that you want to close.
From Work Order Released Date	The first date in the range of release dates for the work orders that you want to close.
To Work Order Released Date	The last date in the range of release dates for the work orders that you want to close.
From Work Order Completed Date	The first date in the range of completion dates for the work orders that you want to close.
To Work Order Completed Date	The last date in the range of completion dates for the work orders that you want to close.
Work Order Asset	The asset associated with the maintenance work orders.
Work Order Status	You can select from the following work order statuses: Unreleased Released On Hold Canceled Completed Closed The default is blank.

You can run the scheduled process on demand or schedule it to run at a specific interval of time. To run the scheduled process at a specific schedule or time, click the Advanced button and then in the Schedule tab, select Using a schedule from the Run option. Now, you can select the frequency and enter a start date for the scheduled process to run.