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title: "Enable ATO Management – Activate Advanced Transaction Object on Screen or Container in Board"
slug: "enable-ato-management"
description: "Learn how to enable ATO Management in Board: Enable ATO in Screen or Container properties, auto-enable via Entity Editor, and configure isolated ATO environments."
updated: 2025-07-04T11:04:41Z
published: 2025-07-04T11:04:41Z
canonical: "help.board.com/enable-ato-management"
---

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# Enable ATO Management

**Instructions for Capsule developers**

Here's how to enable ATO management.

The ATO management can be enabled:

- **on a Screen**: all Objects on the Screen are affected by ATO settings. All Objects associated with a Layout will only show data once a selection on all available Entity editors has been made.
- **on a Container Object**: ATO settings apply only to Objects within the container. In the Container, all Objects associated with a Layout will only show data once a selection on all available Entity editors has been made.

## Enable ATO at Screen level

To **enable ATO at Screen level**, select the "Enable ATO" checkbox in the Screen Properties panel under the Data subpage to the right of the Screen.

![contents/assets/images/screen enable ato.png](https://cdn.document360.io/8d6f1ae8-0cac-4d0d-a208-6245b83df94a/Images/Documentation/enable-ato-management-image-tnkmivoe.png)

## Enable ATO on a Container

To **enable ATO on a Container**, first select the Object, then select the "Enable ATO" checkbox in the Object Properties panel under the Main options of the Data subpage to the right of the Screen.

![contents/assets/images/container enable ato.png](https://cdn.document360.io/8d6f1ae8-0cac-4d0d-a208-6245b83df94a/Images/Documentation/enable-ato-management-image-g6j93hb6.png)

> [!NOTE]
> *ATO management is automatically enabled when you drag and drop an Entity editor Object on a Screen or a Container. ATO management cannot be disabled if an Entity editor Object has been added to a Screen or a Container. The Pager Object is not allowed in an ATO management environment.*

## Configure a new ATO management environment

To **configure a new ATO management environment**, you can start by creating a Screen or by dragging a Container onto a Screen, then enable the ATO feature. Once you've done this, you can add other Objects at will.

You can **create more than one ATO management environments using multiple Containers** on the same Screen: each can have its own distinct Objects with different ATO management settings, as the Container Object creates a separate and self-contained environment.

> [!NOTE]
> *You can add multiple Entity editors to an ATO management environment (a Screen or a Container), but you can't add an Entity editor to a Container if the Screen or Container that contains it already has an Entity editor in place. In other words, you cannot nest an ATO management environment inside another one.*

Learn more about:

- [**ATO environments**](/v1/docs/about-data-entry-and-advanced-transaction-object-ato)
- [**Entity Editor in ATO environments**](/v1/docs/entity-editor-in-ato)