An append-only list of stations stamped as they happen, rendered as connected nodes on the order card and in the workspace header. Steps that never happened stay visible but dim. A compact variant for narrow cards shows what has been reached plus the next station only.
Also called: where is my order · order tracking · order status timeline · stalled order
- 1recordJourney adds a step once — re-recording would make the timeline lie about how many times something happened
- 2recordJourneySteps writes several stations in one write at the end of a receiving pass
- 3Later stations imply the earlier ones, taking the timestamp of the first recorded step that proves them
- 4Paid is never implied: 'an order can arrive before it is paid for, and claiming it was paid because it turned up would be a lie about money'
- 5currentStep derives where the order actually is from the record rather than a hand-set status
- 6'Sourced elsewhere' renders as a banner ANNOTATION above the trip, not instead of it
Migration 220: 'One status column can only ever say where it is NOW, so the card cannot show the trip, and "when did we pay?" or "did they ever promise a date?" are unanswerable after the fact.' The dim-step rule: 'A greyed "Short / damaged" node is information: it says nothing went wrong. Hiding it would make a clean order and a problem order look the same shape.' And a fixed bug: 'Returning early here erased the nodes — and the order still went out, was still paid or not, still has a history worth reading.'
- A single status word cannot show a trip or a stall
- History is unanswerable once the status has moved on
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