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# Recovery strategy and task templates

# Recovery strategy and task templates {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Australia
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* Updated June 3, 2026
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

Business continuity planners often rebuild the same recovery structures each time they author a plan. Reusable templates remove that repetition by capturing standard strategies, tasks, and task groupings once and applying
them wherever they are needed.

Recovery strategy templates capture the implementation profile of a strategy (estimated time to implement, maximum duration of use, estimated % of operations achieved, and comments). The same strategy can be applied to loss scenarios
across plans.

* Task templates are standalone, reusable tasks that you can add to a recovery task or event task on an ad hoc basis. Individual task templates do not carry dependencies.

* Task template groups bundle multiple task templates and define dependencies between them. A group can apply to all element definitions or to specific ones (for example, Business service or Linux server). It scopes the groups offered
  when you add them from a loss scenario or recovery strategy.

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Templates can be associated with plan templates at the plan, loss scenario, and recovery strategy levels. Then a plan created from the template generates the full hierarchy in a single operation.

If you are upgrading from a version without templates, you do not have to start from scratch. Select existing recovery tasks or event tasks and save them as a new group (dependencies preserved). Add them to an existing group, or save
them as individual task templates.
**Related concepts**   

* [Event task creation progress in exercise and crisis events](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/TK0Tpuu0HRAcib9C4EF~oQ "When event tasks are created in bulk from task template groups or task templates, the Event tasks list defers refresh to avoid impacting large events. This topic explains the banner and auto-refresh behavior.")  
**Related tasks**   

* [Configure a recovery strategy template](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/YLEnm5qlNrfZV_Xcj_lWaw "Configure a reusable recovery strategy template so business continuity planners can apply a pre-defined strategy to loss scenarios without re-entering the implementation details each time.")
* [Apply Task templates and Task template groups](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/ef~WK6ydcEAkT6sXsl5yiw "Save individual tasks or groups of tasks for reuse across plans. You can add templates to new plans or insert them into existing plans. You can also generate templates directly from tasks and plans that already exist in the system.")
* [Create a business continuity plan from a plan template](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/BrF5r8iJSd3andQWK3KQBw "Create a business continuity plan from a plan template in BCM UIB Workspace so that the loss scenarios, recovery strategies, and recovery tasks defined on the template are generated automatically.")