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title: Associating related plans to a recovery task
description: You can now associate related plans with recovery tasks, making it easier to identify and manage plans during recovery. You can then use auto-generated nested plans in an event, reducing the manual effort of adding plans and improving system performance.
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# Associating related plans to a recovery task

You can now associate related plans with recovery tasks, making it easier to identify and manage plans during recovery. You can then use auto-generated nested plans in an event, reducing the manual effort of adding plans and improving system performance.

For configuring cross-plan dependencies, you must associate related plans to a recovery task. Whenever a related plan is associated with a recovery task in an event, a new activated plan is created from this task.

For more information on using nested plans in an event, see [Using nested plans](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/creating-nested-plan-in-event.md).

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