What happens when a pin is published

Setting a row to Scheduled is a bit like posting a letter. You drop it in and walk away. It still helps to know what happens in between, mostly so you can tell what is normal when you look at the calendar later.

Step by step

Creatorzel checks your Notion calendar every few minutes. It looks for rows with Status set to Scheduled. Rows with any other status are skipped.
When the date and time on a Scheduled row arrive, the row is due.
Creatorzel downloads the image attached to the row. The download is temporary and exists only so the pin can be published.
It publishes the pin to the board named on the row, through the Pinterest account you connected. The access to that account is stored encrypted.
The downloaded image is deleted.
The status is written back to the row in Notion, and the link to the new pin is kept on it.

That is the whole sequence. There is no queue for you to manage and nothing to approve at the last minute, because the approval was the moment you set Status to Scheduled.

Notice where your control sits. You decide the content and the time, and you set the status. Everything after that is Creatorzel doing what the row says, once.

A worked example

Say a row is set for 9:00 on a Tuesday morning. Before 9:00, every check finds the row not due yet and leaves it alone. At the first check after 9:00, the row is due. Creatorzel downloads the image, publishes the pin, deletes the image and updates the row.

Because checks run every few minutes, that first check can land a few minutes past 9:00. If you open Notion at 9:01 and see nothing yet, that is normal.

What you will see in Notion

Open the row after the check that followed its time. The status will have changed and the link to the pin will be there. Click the link and you land on the live pin, which is the quickest way to read the title and description exactly as people see them. Keep that link. It is also the easiest way to share the pin with a client or a teammate.

If a pin is not there yet

Give it a little time past the scheduled moment first. If the row still looks untouched, look at the fields a pin is built from:

Status is Scheduled, and not something else.
The date and time are the ones you meant.
The row has a board.
The row has an image.

Still nothing? Email support@creatorzel.com and tell us which row you mean.

One pin, one time

A row is published once. Nothing repeats, and nothing is posted on its own, so an empty stretch in your calendar stays empty. If you want a pin to go out again, add a new row with a new time.