A pin is just an image until you link it to a product. Once linked, it
stops being a picture and becomes the actual piece — with its vendor, its
price, its lead time and its history.
Why bother
- The client sees the real thing — Approving a linked pin approves a
specific product, not “something like this”.
- It moves straight to a schedule — No re-finding the piece, re-typing
the price or hunting for the vendor page.
- Prices stay in one place — Update the product in the library and
every board referencing it is current.
- You can trace it later — Six months on, which sofa was on that
board? has an answer.
Link a pin
Select the pin and choose the product from your library. Search by name or
brand.
If the piece is not in the library yet, add it first — import from URL,
capture with the Chrome extension, or add manually.
What a linked pin gains
On the schedule side, the two small icons beside a product name are the
visible result: one opens the vendor’s page, the other jumps to the
pinboard the product was presented on. That second one is worth the linking
on its own — it answers where did we show the client this? without
anybody searching.
Link as you build, not afterwards. Going back through a finished board
hunting for which lamp was which is the kind of job that never gets done.