A small set of navigation actions the engine can run before a step waits for its target: switch view, open a settings sub-tab, raw hash, expand the sidebar, expand a pipeline stage (even an empty one), place the practice card in a given stage, open the demo estimate, open a pipeline card's detail modal, open a project on the Gantt, or open the estimate builder.
Also called: auto navigate · the tutorial opens the screen · it takes me there
- 1Every hook is the app's REAL mechanism — the same hash assignments, window events and sessionStorage handshakes the app's own buttons use; there is deliberately no private navigation API for the Academy
- 2Before spotlighting any sidebar anchor the engine fires the expand-sidebar event, because a collapsed sidebar clips its buttons
- 3Placing the practice card into a stage happens on entry to a step both forwards and backwards, so a chapter that moves the card is fully reversible
A walkthrough that says 'now go to Settings, then Project Stages' loses people on the way there, and they arrive at the wrong tab and give up. Steps drive the app instead: switch screens, open a Settings tab, expand a pipeline column, open one lead's card, jump to a project on the schedule. They do it through the same controls a person clicks rather than a private back door, because a second way of getting around drifts from the real one and starts teaching a path through the app that no longer exists.
- Written instructions that assume you can find the screen
- Tours that describe navigation instead of performing it
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Twenty minutes, your numbers, no slide deck. We’ll build one of your real buildings in front of you and send you the estimate link at the end — yours to keep either way.
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