Run a tracker now
Click Run Now — in the tracker page header, or from the … menu on the tracker’s card — to trigger an immediate run without waiting for the schedule. You’ll see a “Story generation triggered” confirmation, a Running row appears in the timeline, and the page updates automatically as results come in. Runs happen in the background and can take a few minutes. If nothing appears right away, check the run row’s status before retrying — the run may still be in progress, or it may have finished with nothing new to report (see Skipped below). Scheduled trackers run automatically at their configured time; runs fire on the hour and half-hour in the tracker’s timezone, which is why schedule times are offered in 30-minute increments.The run timeline
The tracker page shows a reverse-chronological feed grouped by day (“Today”, “Yesterday”, and dates). Each run appears as a row with a status pill:| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Running | The run is in progress. |
| Success | The run completed and produced one or more stories. |
| Partial | Some topics succeeded and some failed. |
| Skipped | The run finished without new content. Hover the pill for the reason. |
| Failed | The run produced nothing. Hover the pill for the reason. |
Skipped is not an error. It means the run found no genuinely new material for the period — either no new topics surfaced, or every candidate overlapped with stories the tracker already published. Deduplication is working as intended. If a tracker skips often, try broadening the topic, adding sources, or lowering the frequency.
Pause and resume
Pause (from the … menu) stops scheduled runs; the tracker’s status pill changes from Active (green) to Paused (grey), and it won’t generate stories until resumed. Resume re-activates it, and it picks up again on its next scheduled run.Edit a tracker
Choose Edit from the … menu on a card or the tracker page. The form is the same as creation — name, topic, frequency, and sources — and the Update button enables once you change something. Organization admins can also convert a tracker between personal and organization scope while editing. Conversion changes who can see every story the tracker has ever generated, in both directions:- To organization: every story it has generated becomes visible to everyone in your organization.
- To personal: organization-wide access is removed from every story it has generated.
Archive and restore
Archive moves a tracker to the Archived tab after a confirmation dialog. Archived trackers stop running but keep their history.Tracker limits
The number of trackers you can create depends on your organization’s plan. When you reach the limit, creating another tracker shows an upgrade dialog (“You’re tracking as much as this plan allows”). Archive trackers you no longer need, or contact your Merciv representative about your plan.Permissions
- You can only run, edit, pause, or archive trackers you own. Personal trackers are private to their creator.
- Organization trackers can be managed only by organization admins.