A published Action Plan Template is intentionally immutable . Salesforce explicitly states that after an Action Plan Template is published, it cannot be edited or deleted; depending on the implementation, it can be deactivated or made obsolete, and a replacement template must be created when process changes are required.
This behavior preserves process integrity. Existing Action Plans can be traced back to the exact template definition from which they were created, which is important for standardized licensing, inspection, compliance, and due-diligence workflows. Allowing administrators to alter a published template could change the apparent definition of a process after users had already executed tasks generated from that template.
Salesforce's document-automation guidance states the remediation directly: because a published template can't be changed, create a new template and remove or retire the old one. In practice, an administrator can clone the existing template, modify the draft copy with the updated assessment tasks, document requirements, signatures, or inspection steps, then publish the replacement.
The absence of Edit is therefore not a page-layout problem or missing System Administrator permission. Salesforce Support isn't required to modify the existing record because the immutability is an intentional product lifecycle rule.
Study Guide Reference: Public Sector Solution Product Configuration – Action Plan Templates; Draft and Published lifecycle; template versioning; inspection-process governance.
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