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title: Restart a Completed or Canceled Series
description: "**Use this when:** a schedule finished, or was canceled, and the same parent entry should start repeating again. --- ## Steps 1. Open the parent entry: **Forms → (your form) → Entries → (the entry)**. 2. Find the card for…"
url: "https://brightleafdigital.io/docs/restart-a-completed-or-canceled-series/"
updated: "2026-10-18"
category: Recurring Form Submissions for Gravity Forms / How To Guides Recurring Form Submissions For Gravity Forms
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# Restart a Completed or Canceled Series

**Use this when:** a schedule finished, or was canceled, and the same parent entry should start repeating again.

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## Steps

1. Open the parent entry: **Forms → (your form) → Entries → (the entry)**.
2. Find the card for the feed you want.
3. Click **Start Series From Now**.

That's it. A **new** series begins, using the current saved entry and the feed's current settings.

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## What "From Now" Actually Means

> **It schedules a future occurrence. It does not submit anything right now.**

The new series applies the feed's recurrence interval first, then its run time — so a daily feed started today runs for the first time *tomorrow* at the configured time.

To submit immediately, use **Run Next Submission Now** after the series exists. To choose a specific first date, use **Change next submission**.

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## What the New Series Inherits

| From the feed, as it is **now** | Fresh |
| --- | --- |
| Cadence, run time, timezone | Progress starts at zero |
| Allowed weekdays | The end condition restarts from scratch |
| Missed-run policy | A new schedule snapshot and revision |
| End condition and limit |  |
| Input mode |  |

The old series' attempt history stays in Queue for the retention window. The new series gets its own.

> **Note:** the limit restarts. A 12-submission series that completed and is restarted will run 12 more times.

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## When the Button Appears

**Start Series From Now** shows when:

- the entry has **no** series for that feed, **or** its series is **completed** or **canceled**, **and**
- the feed is **active**, **and**
- you hold the management capability, **and**
- the series is not blocked pending review after a storage failure.

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## When It Doesn't Appear — and Why

| Situation | Why | Fix |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series is **paused** | It still exists | Use **Resume** |
| Series is **failed** | It still exists | Fix the cause, then **Retry** or **Resume** |
| Series is **scheduled** | It's already running | Nothing to do |
| Feed is **inactive** | Deactivated feeds start nothing | Reactivate it on the **Feeds** tab |
| Records **need review** | A storage failure may have created a child | Review child entries and attempt history first |
| No card at all | The form has no recurring feed and the entry has no series | Create a feed |

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## After Restoring a Trashed Parent

Trashing or permanently deleting a parent entry **immediately cancels** all its unfinished series — including paused and processing ones.

Restoring the parent does **not** restart them. That's deliberate: an accidental restore should never silently resume automated submissions.

To resume after a restore, click **Start Series From Now** explicitly.

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## Restarting Many Series

There is no bulk restart. For a programme-wide restart:

1. Confirm the feed is active and its settings are current.
2. Open each parent entry and click **Start Series From Now**.

If the parents will be re-submitted anyway, new submissions start their own series automatically — no restart needed.

Bulk series actions are on the roadmap.