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# The newcomer flow

> The first screen in an empty studio — paste a few product links and a board is built, then approving a pin puts it in the schedule.

A studio made a minute ago is empty, and an empty workspace does not explain
itself. The newcomer flow is what fills it: paste two or three links
to products you are considering, and Atelier builds a board from them. It
exists to show the loop the rest of the product is built around — **pin it,
approve it, it is in the schedule** — before anyone has had to learn where
anything lives.

It appears on Home, once for each person, and only while the studio has yet to
produce a schedule line — so it is normally the first day, but a colleague
joining an empty studio months later meets it too. You can leave at any point,
and you can come back.

## What you see first

The screen says **Your workspace is ready**, greets you by name, and gives you
one thing to do: a box reading *Paste your product links and I'll build the
board*.

Beneath it is a single alternative — **No links to hand? Start with three
products I picked** — for anyone who wants to see the flow without going to
find URLs first. There is deliberately no third option. Two buttons that do
the same thing make a choice out of what should be a start.

## Paste the links

Any product page from a vendor's site will do, pasted as plain addresses. Up
to **six** links are read at a time; past that the extra ones are ignored and
you are told so, rather than left to wonder why a board came back short.

Atelier reads each page and tells you how many it is working through. What it
takes from them is the product and its specification — the same import that
[bringing a product in from a URL](/product-library/import-a-product-from-a-url)
uses, so the board is built out of real records rather than pictures.

A page it cannot read a product from is named and left off the board. The
answer to that is another link, so the box stays where it is.

## Name the project

While the board builds, the flow asks what to call the project. A brand-new
studio is offered **Sample Project**; a studio that already has projects of
its own is offered **New project** instead.

## Approve a pin

When the board is ready the flow points you at it and stops. The last step
happens on the board itself, not in the conversation, because that is where it
will happen every time afterwards:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the board">
    **See it on the board** takes you there.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Double-click a product">
    The pin opens. This is the part people miss — the flow says it out loud
    for that reason.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Approve it">
    The pin becomes a line in the schedule, carrying its price and
    specification with it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

That is the whole loop, and the flow says so when it sees the first line
appear. Everything else in Atelier hangs off it: a schedule line is what
becomes a purchase order, an invoice line, a budget figure.

## Leaving, and coming back

Closing the flow says *not now*, not *never*. In its place a **Get started**
card appears on Home, with the same way in. If you had already built a board,
it reads **Pick up where you left off** and takes you back to it.

The card carries its own ✕. That one is final — it is recorded against your
membership rather than the browser, so it holds on every device and does not
return on the next visit.

<Note>
  The flow and the card are per person, not per studio. A colleague joining
  later gets their own introduction, whatever you did with yours.
</Note>

## When it stops appearing

Both the flow and the card go away on their own once the studio has produced
its first schedule line — no dismissing required. Work is the signal; having
been shown the introduction is not.

Lines on the seeded example project do not count. Looking at the example is
not work, and Atelier does not treat it as such.

<Tip>
  Nothing the flow makes is special. The project, the board and the schedule
  line are ordinary records — rename them, add to them or delete them exactly as
  you would any others.
</Tip>