Profile Workspace Activation, Place, Schedule, and Heartbeat
How creators activate a featured profile workspace onto a place, what future date and time mean, and when the app creates an automatic heartbeat rule for ongoing presence.
Profile Workspace Activation, Place, Schedule, and Heartbeat
Where you see this in the app
This page documents the profile-settings flow that activates a featured profile workspace onto a place and schedule.
Users encounter it in profile basics, where they can choose a place and a future date/time before saving profile workspace setup.
What activation does
Activation turns a profile workspace from a prepared profile asset into a place-linked live presence.
From an end-user standpoint, activating the profile workspace means:
- attaching it to a selected place,
- setting the intended time,
- making it behave like an active place-facing profile workspace post.
If the user does not yet have a profile workspace post, the app provisions one first before continuing.
Place and future date/time rules
The activation flow enforces a few rules directly in the UI:
| Requirement | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Select a place first | The workspace must be attached to a specific place |
| Select a date/time | Activation needs a concrete scheduled moment |
| Choose a future date/time | Past or invalid times are rejected |
The app uses clear messages for these cases because activation is intentionally tied to a real place context rather than a vague draft state.
What happens after activation
A successful activation updates the profile workspace post with place and schedule information.
What users should expect next:
- the profile workspace becomes place-linked,
- the app marks it as active for profile-workspace purposes,
- future place-facing surfaces can treat it as the user's active professional workspace presence.
If the workspace is already actively checked in at the same place, the app can treat the activation as continuing that existing presence rather than creating a totally separate one.
Heartbeat and ongoing presence
The app can also create a heartbeat rule during activation.
When that happens, users may see messaging such as Heartbeat automation was created. The end-user meaning is straightforward: the workspace now has an automatic background rule intended to keep the profile workspace presence maintained over time.
Users should think of heartbeat as an ongoing-presence aid, not as a public chat feature by itself.
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