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title: Move One Series to a Different Date
description: "**Use this when:** one schedule needs to run on a different date or time, and everything else about it is fine. **Don't use this when:** you want to change how *often* it repeats — that's a feed setting. See *Change…"
url: "https://brightleafdigital.io/docs/move-one-series-to-a-different-date/"
updated: "2026-10-18"
category: Recurring Form Submissions for Gravity Forms / How To Guides Recurring Form Submissions For Gravity Forms
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# Move One Series to a Different Date

**Use this when:** one schedule needs to run on a different date or time, and everything else about it is fine.

**Don't use this when:** you want to change how *often* it repeats — that's a feed setting. See *Change the Schedule for Existing Series*.

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## Steps

1. Open **GravityOps → Recurring Submissions → Queue** and find the series. *(Or open the parent entry and use the card's **Change next submission** button, which opens Queue in a new tab.)*
2. Click **Change next submission**.
3. Enter the **full next date and time**.
4. Click **Preview** and read the continuing cadence it projects.
5. Save.

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## What Changes, and What Doesn't

| ✅ Changes | ❌ Stays the same |
| --- | --- |
| The next target | The recurrence interval |
| The anchor the following occurrences are counted from | Progress and successful counts |
|  | The end condition and its limit |
|  | Attempt history |
|  | The paused state — this does **not** resume a series |

The cadence continues *from the date and time you chose*. Set a weekly series to next Thursday and it runs every Thursday after that.

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## Common Uses

### Pull the first occurrence earlier

A new schedule always puts its first occurrence a full interval out. If a daily feed saved at 01:14 should run today at 01:20 rather than tomorrow, start the series and then move its next submission to today.

### Shift a run off a holiday

Move that one occurrence to the next working day. Subsequent runs follow from there.

### Re-align a series that drifted

If a manual run put a series out of step with its siblings, set the target you want and the rhythm re-anchors.

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## When the Button Isn't There

| Situation | Why | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series is **completed** or **canceled** | There is no next occurrence | Use **Start Series From Now** |
| Series is **locked** | Something is submitting it right now | Wait for the attempt to finish |
| Series is **processing** | Same | Wait |
| Records **need review** after a storage failure | Submissions are blocked to prevent duplicates | Review the child entries and attempt history first |

Paused and failed series **can** have their next submission changed — but changing it does not restart them. Use **Resume** for that.

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## Doing This for Many Series

There is no bulk date editor. For many series on the same feed, either:

- edit the feed and **apply the saved schedule to existing series**, which recalculates future targets for the whole set, or
- move each series individually when the dates genuinely differ.

Bulk per-series actions are on the roadmap.