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If you collect the same data from a partner on a regular cadence — monthly meter readings, weekly fuel deliveries — schedule a recurring data request instead of building and sending a new one each cycle. A schedule pairs a template (the inputs, recipients, and message you want repeated) with a cadence. At each interval Mangrove generates a new data request from the template and sends it to your recipients automatically.

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Create a scheduled request

Open the request form from Data Inputs > Request Data the same way you would for a one-off. At the bottom of the form, find Delivery schedule — a toggle with three options:
  • Send now — send immediately (one-off)
  • Schedule once — send a single request at a specific date and time
  • Recurring — send on a recurring cadence
Pick Recurring to reveal the schedule fields.
1

Pick the Scheduled send

Set the date and time of the first send. Subsequent sends are calculated from this point.
2

Set the cadence

Choose weeks or months and an interval from 1 to 52 — for example, Every 1 weeks (weekly) or Every 2 months (every other month).Each generated request covers the window from the scheduled send forward by one cadence — e.g. a weekly schedule firing Monday at 9 AM produces a request asking for Monday 9 AM – next Monday 9 AM.
3

Choose an end condition

Pick when the schedule should stop:
  • Never — runs indefinitely until you pause or end it
  • On [date] — stops after the specified date
  • After [N] occurrences — stops after a fixed number of sends
4

Save the schedule

The schedule appears in the Data Requests list with a Recurring tag (blue). At each scheduled time, Mangrove spawns a new data request from the template and sends it to your recipients automatically.

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Track scheduled sends

In the Data Requests list, expand a scheduled request to see the sends that have already gone out — each spawned request appears as a child row with its own N/M events status, just like a one-off. Open the detail drawer for the scheduled request to see the schedule status card, which shows:
  • The current status — Active, Paused, or Completed
  • The cadence and end condition
  • Next send — when the next request will go out
  • Last send — when the most recent request was sent
Each spawned send is a normal data request that you and your partners can submit to and review like any other — see Request data from external partners for the submission and review flow.

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Pause, resume, or end a schedule

From the schedule status card in the detail drawer:
  • Pause an active schedule. Paused schedules stop generating new requests but keep their settings — the list-view tag changes to Paused (orange).
  • Resume a paused schedule to pick back up at the next interval.
Once a schedule reaches its end condition (date passed or occurrence count hit), its status becomes Completed (green tag) and it stops sending. Create a new schedule to start again.
Edits to the template — recipients, message, requested inputs — apply only to future sends. Already-sent requests stay as they were when the partner received them.

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Limits and behaviors to know

  • One active schedule per data request. A request can have at most one active or paused schedule at a time.
  • You can’t send a scheduled template manually. While a schedule is active, the template itself can’t be sent ad-hoc — pause or end the schedule first if you need to send a one-off in between.
  • Custom cron isn’t supported. Cadences are limited to weekly and monthly with an integer interval (1–52).
  • Failed sends skip; they don’t retry. If a send fails, the error is logged and the schedule advances to the next window. To backfill a missed period, send a one-off data request covering that window.