How does "Task creation policy" work?

[cloudyrobert]

This field exists on the Work Plan [wm_planned_work_plan] table. Here's what the docs say about it:

I've run through a handful of scenarios trying to interpret this and am not sure what it's doing (or supposed to be doing). When set to "Leave alone", it does not:

• Prevent the creation of subsequent Work Orders against the same asset for the same Work Plan and Planned Work Schedule when an existing Work Order is still active.
• Prevent the creation/modification/deletion of Scheduled Occurrences or Work Orders when the Planned Work Schedule is modified.

I'd have thought it was supposed to do one of these two -- grateful for any clarity!

[TrudyC]

I'm having the same issue. Did you every get any clarity and if so would you please share it with me?

[Joshua Chen MTL]

its related to schedule suppression. if you run 2 plan and they conflict (schedule occurence), this determine what it will do

Schedule Suppression	Suppress Period	Number of days in which suppression engine should evaluate for overlapping schedule dates. Read more about this in system properties section - sn_fsm_planned_wm.tolerance_span.
Schedule Suppression	Active	Option to enable this suppression rule.
Schedule Suppression	Suppress by	Name of the work schedule that you want to have priority over the current schedule.
Schedule Suppression	Order	Order in which this suppression rule is evaluated.