Make an activity unavailable in playbooks

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title: Make an activity unavailable in playbooks
description: Deactivate an activity to stop users from adding it to playbooks in Creator Studio.
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release: australia
product: Creator Studio
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last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [About custom activities, Administer, Creator Studio, Developing your application, Classic app development, Building applications]
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# Make an activity unavailable in playbooks

Deactivate an activity to stop users from adding it to playbooks in Creator Studio.

## Before you begin

For example, you could hide an base system activity, like sending an email, if it's not relevant to your workflow.

**Note:** Hiding an activity doesn't change anything about the processes using that activity. Hiding an activity only makes it unavailable in Creator Studio.

Role required: admin or app\_engine\_admin

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **App Engine** > **Request App Administration** > **Creator Studio Activities**.

    All of the standard Creator Studio activities appear in the list, not just custom activities.

    \[Omitted image "crs-activities-table.png"\] Alt text: Creator Studio Activities table showing available activities with their descriptions and order values.

    The Creator Studio Activities table appears.

2.  Open the Creator Studio Activity record for the activity that you want to hide by selecting is **Short Description** field.

3.  Hide the activity by clearing the **Active** check box.

    \[Omitted image "crs-activity-active-box.png"\] Alt text: Creator Studio Activity form with the Active check box selected

4.  Select **Update** to save the record.


**Parent Topic:**[Administering activities in Creator Studio](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/creator-studio/creator-studio-administering-activities.md)