What Happens When a Cadence is Closed?

Last updated: August 18, 2026

Closing a Cadence retains historical Cadence Sessions and marks any open Sessions as Completed. This article will outline how closing a Cadence affects Sessions in different statuses.

Required permissions:

  • The Coaching Cadences: Create Cadence permission is required to close a Cadence where you are the designated Owner.

  • The Coaching: All Access permission is required to close any Cadence.

Cadence Visibility and Status

Whenever you mark a Cadence as closed, the following actions will happen:

  • The Cadence's status will move to Closed

  • The Cadence overview and employee roster will still be visibility

  • The Cadence can still be duplicated

Employee Status

The Cadence's Employee roster will be updated to the following statuses after the Cadence is closed:

  • Active employees will be marked as Incomplete

  • Paused employees will be marked as Incomplete

  • Completed employees will remain marked as Completed

  • Not Started employees will remain as Not Started

  • Removed employees will remain as Removed

 

Sessions Statuses

Closing a Cadence updates Session statues in the following ways:

  • Answers Due Sessions will change to Excused

  • Pending Approval Sessions will change to Excused

  • Completed Sessions will remain marked as Completed

  • Expired Sessions will remain marked as Expired

  • Excused Sessions will remain marked as Excused

Historical Sessions

Any Sessions generated while the Cadence was open will remain in Ambition. No historical Cadence data is deleted whenever a Cadence is closed.

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