The plugin offers you two ways to create and maintain step patterns that you use in your story writing:
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To disable the uploading of step patterns programmatically navigate to the plugin configuration page (see more here) and set the option titled 'Uploading of step patterns from Java client' to Off as shown in the screenshot below and click the Update button.
Note while setting this option to Off you want to ensure that the option titled 'Editing of step patterns' that which controls whether editing of step patterns via the step patterns screen is enabled as opposed to being able to view them only is set to On, otherwise you would not have no way to update the step patterns.
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