# Managing Facilities (Quality)

Vault provides the ability to manage details about facilities through the _Facility_ object. You can view or manage facilities from **Business Admin** > **Facilities**.

One of the benefits to using the _Facility_ object over a picklist field is that users can find documents related to a facility using any of the facility's fields.  For example, if the facility _Headquarters_ has the code _HQ_, users can search on "Headquarters" or "HQ" to find documents.

## Related Permissions

To manage object data records for the Facilities object, you must have a security profile that grants the correct <a href="/en/gr/22824/">object-level permissions</a>.

## How to Add and Edit Facilities

To add or edit a facility:

  1.  From the **Facilities** page, click **Create** or click on an existing facility and then click **Edit**.
  1.  Enter the **Facility Name** and **Facility Number/Code**.
  1.  Optional: Fill in the other facility fields (**Facility Address**, etc.). Note that these can vary by Vault, depending on whether an Admin has customized the standard object.
  1.  Set the **Status**. Users can only see and select active facilities when setting the document fields.
  1.  Click **Save**.

## How to Disable and Delete Facilities

Vault prevents deletion of facilities that users have selected on at least one document or that Admins have used within a lifecycle rule or workflow. If you cannot delete a facility, prevent users from selecting it in the future by changing its status to Disabled.

To delete a facility:

  1.  From the **Facilities** page, hover over the facility.
  1.  Click the red **X** icon that appears.
  1.  Click **Continue** in the confirmation dialog to permanently delete the facility.