Marking Preventive Maintenance (PM) Checklist Items as Completed

Updated on May 15th, 2025

This article will teach you how to mark checklist items as completed on scheduled PM Work Orders. Checklist items are the step-by-step actions required to complete a PM task.

Note: See the Adding an Action to a Preventive Maintenance (PM) Task article for reference on how to add action items to a PM Task.

  1. From the Property & Facility menu, click Preventive Maintenance.
  2. From the Preventive Maintenance page, make sure the applicable Property is selected in the property selector at the top right of the page, then click the PMO# of the desired Work Order.
  3. From the PM Work Order [PMO#] page, click the Checklist tab and then click the Description of the desired checklist item.
  4. Once the Update Checklist Item window has opened, complete the form presented:
Field Explanation
Instructions The instructions are displayed for the checklist item.
Status Select Completed to change the current status of the checklist item.
Value

If applicable, enter the appropriate value for the reading.

Note: This field will appear only when the checklist item type is Reading. There is a 50 character limit for this field.

Comments If applicable, enter any comments for the checklist item.
  1. Click the Save & Next button.
  2. The checklist item has now been marked as Completed.
    • Note: To complete checklist items in bulk, click the checkbox next to each action to be completed, click the Actions button, then select Complete task(s).