Preparations in Planned Maintenance
The following preparatory steps have to be made in Planned Maintenance in order to set up planned maintenance in Essentials Edition :
1. Add a maintenance plan for a certain time frame.
2. If you want to generate planned maintenance orders for your activities, make sure that the following values are set for your maintenance plan:
Status: Active
Is definitive: Yes
3. Link all the properties that you need to maintain within your maintenance plan (via Link properties).
4. Compile your maintenance plan for the properties you have linked.