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title: Create Plan form
description: Use the Create Plan form in BCM UIB Workspace to add the details about the business continuity plan \(BCP\).
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release: australia
topic_type: reference
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Create a business continuity plan, Structured workflows for BCPs, Manage, Business Continuity Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
---

# Create Plan form

Use the Create Plan form in BCM UIB Workspace to add the details about the business continuity plan \(BCP\).

## Create Plan form

For description of the field values, see the table.

<table id="table_FloorForm"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Overview tab

</td></tr><tr><td>

State

</td><td>

Current state display and progression indicator for the business continuity plan.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Details tab

</td></tr><tr><td>

Name

</td><td>

Name of the business continuity plan. You can describe the BCP within 255 characters in length.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Template

</td><td>

Model template for creating the BCP. The template BIA has the primary elements \(applications, business processes, and locations\), impact categories, and the dependent assets identified for the type of assessment.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Type

</td><td>

Type of the business continuity plan. Available options are:-   Continuity plan
-   Recovery plan
-   Crisis response plan

</td></tr><tr><td>

Plan owner

</td><td>

Owner of the business continuity plan.

</td></tr><tr><td>

BCM lead

</td><td>

BCM lead for the business continuity plan.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Business unit

</td><td>

Business unit that the business continuity plan is created for. Available options are:-   Finance
-   HR
-   IT
-   Legal
-   Marketing
-   Sales

</td></tr><tr><td>

Department

</td><td>

Department related to the business unit. You can select the department based on the business unit selected.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Expires

</td><td>

Read-only field. Expiration date for the plan.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Description

</td><td>

Description of the business continuity plan.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Scope

</td></tr><tr><td>

Asset types

</td><td>

Asset types that you can add to the plan.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Add primary scope

</td><td>

UI action to add the primary scope to the plan.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Add related asset

</td><td>

UI action to add the related asset to the plan.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Asset dependencies

</td></tr><tr><td>

Asset dependencies

</td><td>

Asset dependencies related to the plan.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Documentation section

</td></tr><tr><td>

Documentation section

</td><td>

Title, Description, Order, Contents of the documentation section.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Associated plans

</td></tr><tr class="sub-head"><td>

Associated plans

</td><td>

Associated plan types such as Upstream plans, Downstream plans, and Related plans.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Recovery teams

</td></tr><tr><td>

Recovery teams

</td><td>

Recovery teams for the plan.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Loss scenarios

</td></tr><tr><td>

Loss scenarios

</td><td>

Loss scenarios defined for the plan.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Recovery tasks

</td></tr><tr><td>

Recovery tasks

</td><td>

Recovery tasks associated with the plan.

</td></tr><tr><td class="sub-head" colspan="2">

Icons displayed in the side-bar of the record

</td></tr><tr><td>

Contributors

</td><td>

Icon to populate side-panel in the record. You can add contributors to the business continuity plan from the panel.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Attachment

</td><td>

Panel where the PDF of the business continuity plan is attached.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Template

</td><td>

Panel to populate the template for the business continuity plan. You can view all or customized templates in this panel.

</td></tr></tbody>
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