# Share rounds and hand off approved creators

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DRAFT. Fohr admin audience. Created 2026-09-29 (Ana). Doc set: internal/creator-review-doc-set.md
NOT IN NAVIGATION ON PURPOSE. See index.mdx's comment block.

VERIFIED HANDS-ON 2026-09-29, Playwright against app.fohr.co, reading only. Nothing was published:
  - "Push to Round 1 (78)" is the button's exact label, carrying the count of creators it would
    send. Confirmed on /creator-review-v2/33694.
  - "FINAL HANDOFF" block shows an approved count ("2 approved") above its action, with the
    description "Send approved creators into the connected workflow when decisions are final."
  - The downstream button on that review read "Send to Bulletin".
  - Every review's list card read "Round 1 · Not sent". Across 16294 reviews on this account,
    none reachable in the list had a published round.
  - With Round 1 unsent, Review mode read "Creators: 0" and "No creators yet".

NOW VERIFIED HANDS-ON 2026-09-29 by building a test review end to end. Ana authorized creating it;
Ryan had already authorized test reviews on the Fohr Test brand. Review 33959,
"DOCS TEST - WriteChoice - do not use", brand "Fohr Test". Confirmed there:
  - The push button carries the count it will send: "Push to Round 1 (2)".
  - The confirmation dialog is headed "Push to Round 1?" and reads
    "2 creators will become visible to Fohr Test." Buttons are "Cancel" and "Push to Round 1".
  - After publishing, that action is replaced by "View Round 1 in Review", and the review header
    drops its "Not sent" line.

STILL NOT VERIFIED: the later-round button's own label, the new-creator label on a later round, and
the result of the handoff action. Confirmed via SME only (Ryan Yu, 2026-09-29).

The Notion guide says clients see "Not shared yet" before the first publication. The strings
actually observed are "Creators: 0" and "No creators yet", so this page uses those.

PRODUCT ISSUE, logged in internal/flags-for-fohr.md: after publishing Round 1 on the test review,
Review mode still read "Creators: 0" and "No creators yet", with Unassigned Creators confirmed on.
Until Fohr explains it, this page does not promise that publishing alone makes creators appear.

OPEN: this review's list card read "Linked to campaign" while its Review details dialog showed a
BULLETIN connection, and its handoff button read "Send to Bulletin". The connection type drives the
button label, so which of the two the card reflects matters. Logged in internal/flags-for-fohr.md.
Do not state a rule about the card until Fohr answers.
*/}

Publishing a round is what makes a lineup exist for the brand. Until then everything sits in Build, visible to the Fohr team only, and a reviewer opening the review finds nothing. Later additions work the same way: they wait in Build until you send the round carrying them.

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   A Supademo belongs here. Per writer-skill it sits right after the intro paragraph
   (or, for a second one, at the top of the section it covers), introduced with a
   lead-in sentence using "Explore" as the verb, and embedded as:
     <Video src="{supademo embed url}" title="..." />
   Intended subject: Share the first round and send additions in Creator Review.
   Looms were dropped 2026-09-29 (Ana) in favour of Supademos.
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## Before you start

Open the review in **Build** and find **CUSTOMIZE & PUBLISH** in the workflow panel. Finish the lineup, the rationales, and the display settings first, since publishing is what a reviewer sees rather than a draft they watch you edit.

## How to publish the first round

Follow these steps to make the lineup available to the brand's reviewers.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Check the roster and its presentation">
    Confirm every creator is in the section and lane you intend, that the rationales read the way you want them read, and that the sample content supports them.

    Then open **Client View** from Review mode. That is what the brand gets, and it is the last point at which a wrong display setting is free to fix.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Select Push to Round 1">
    The button carries the count of creators it will send, reading **Push to Round 1 (2)** for a round of two. Check that number against the roster you meant to share before going further, since it counts the queue rather than everyone in the review.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Confirm">
    The dialog's title is **Push to Round 1?** It names the count and the brand, reading "2 creators will become visible to Fohr Test." Read the brand name in that sentence before confirming. It is the last check that you are publishing to the account you meant.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Confirming makes the lineup available in Review, and the action in Build becomes **View Round 1 in Review**. The round is live for anyone the review already lists as a reviewer.

## How to send a later round

Creators you add after a round is live stay queued in Build. Send them with the round action, which names the round it is about to publish and how many new creators it carries.

Check that count before confirming, the same way you check it on the first round. It counts the queue, not everyone in the review.

[Creator Review](/docs/admin/creator-review/) covers what a round is and what happens to earlier ones.

## Hand off the approved creators

**FINAL HANDOFF** shows how many creators cleared approval and offers the downstream action. The action names the destination, reading **Send to Bulletin** for a bulletin-connected review, and the campaign equivalent for a campaign-connected one.

Approval and handoff are two separate steps, and the gap between them is deliberate. A brand approving a creator records a decision. It does not put that creator into campaign negotiation or onto the bulletin's approved applicants. Run the handoff when decisions are final.

Check the result afterward. Creators already present in the destination are the case worth reading the confirmation for, particularly when you built the review from that same campaign or bulletin to begin with.

## Troubleshooting

Three questions come up most often when you share a round, and all three have a quick answer:

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="The brand says the review is empty">
    Two different causes produce the same message, so check both.

    You have not published a round yet. An unsent review reads **No creators yet** in Review, for the brand and for you in admin preview alike. Publish from **Build**.

    Or the creators are still in **Unassigned**. Publishing a round does not make a creator reachable on its own. They have to sit in a real section as well, and this holds even with **Unassigned Creators** turned on. [Review creators](/docs/admin/creator-review/review/) covers how to move them.
  </Accordion>
  <Accordion title="A creator you added is missing from the brand's view">
    They are queued for the next round. Creators you add after a round is live wait in Build until you send the round carrying them, and the round action reports how many are waiting.
  </Accordion>
  <Accordion title="Nobody responded after a successful publication">
    Publication and notification are separate. Publishing controls which creators a reviewer can reach, not who knows about them. Confirm **Reviewers** lists the people you intend, and send the review link yourself.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

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