# Glossary

> The words Metascheduler uses, and the statuses you'll see on schedules, runs and items.

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## Terms

| Term | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Schedule** | An entry on your calendar: a name, a timing and a list of changes. |
| **Timing** | How a schedule runs: **One time**, **Window**, **Repeat** or **Follow a rollout**. |
| **Window** | The time between a schedule's start and its end. |
| **Change** | One kind of edit to a set of items, like 20% off 140 variants. |
| **Change type** | What a change edits, like Variant prices or Navigation menu. |
| **Item** | One thing a change edits: a product, variant, entry, menu, page or policy. |
| **Live** | A schedule whose changes are made right now. |
| **Revert** | Put back the value from before the schedule. |
| **Snapshot** | The value Metascheduler saved just before changing an item. |
| **Drift** | An item someone else changed while a schedule was live, so it wasn't reverted. |
| **Needs you** | The list of things waiting for your decision. |
| **Run** | One start or end of a schedule, shown in **Activity**. |
| **Rollout** | A Shopify Rollouts entry: a Launch, an Event or an Experiment. |

## Schedule statuses

| Status | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Draft** | Being set up. It never runs. |
| **Scheduled** | Waiting for its start. |
| **Live** | Its changes are made now. |
| **Paused** | Nothing new starts. Anything live still reverts at its end. |
| **Ended** | It ran, and nothing more is due. |
| **Archived** | Put away. It won't run again. |

## Run results

| Result | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Done** | Nothing failed. Items changed by someone else, or skipped, still count as done. |
| **Partly done** | Some items failed, and the rest went through. |
| **Failed** | Every item failed. |
| **Skipped** | It didn't run, for example a start whose window had already ended. |
| **Running** | It's running now, or waiting for a Shopify bulk operation. |
| **Cancelled** | It was no longer due, for example the end of a start that was skipped. |

## Item results

| Result | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Done** | Changed, or put back. |
| **Failed** | Shopify didn't accept it, or the app couldn't reach it. |
| **Changed by someone else** | Not put back, because it had changed. See [How reverting works](https://metascheduler.app/help/undo-and-drift.md). |
| **Skipped** | Nothing to do, like a revert where nothing was changed at the start. |

## Related articles

- [How scheduling works](https://metascheduler.app/help/how-scheduling-works.md): Schedules, timing, changes, windows and runs: the ideas behind Metascheduler, and what happens at each moment.
- [How reverting works](https://metascheduler.app/help/undo-and-drift.md): Metascheduler saves what it replaces and checks before it puts it back, so it never overwrites an edit someone made in the meantime.
- [Change types](https://metascheduler.app/help/change-types.md): Every kind of change Metascheduler can schedule, what it does, how it reverts, and which plan has it.