> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vinmake.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The golden path

> The observed document journey on the current product, from choosing a schema through a separate approval.

# The golden path

The full product path has six parts: compose, sign, hand to the Clerk, intake approval, Bookkeeper draft, and posting approval.
This current-branch walkthrough reached and records the first two.
It stops rather than filling the remaining four parts with older captures or an invented demo state.
[Typewriter to posted journal entry](/greatbook/technical/typewriter-to-ledger) traces all six parts in source and states separately what was not verified in the deployed product.

| Part                                  | Capture status                                        |
| ------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| 1 · Compose                           | Observed and pictured                                 |
| 2 · Sign                              | Observed and pictured                                 |
| 3 · Hand to the Clerk                 | Not observed successfully on the current local branch |
| 4 · Intake approval                   | Not reached                                           |
| 5 · Bookkeeper draft                  | Not reached                                           |
| 6 · Posting approval and posted entry | Not reached                                           |

## 1 · Choose the document

The Typewriter exposes its schema registry directly.
For this walk, the user chose a supplier VAT invoice from the complete registry.

<Frame caption="Start with a document type that the renderer and form both know.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/vinmake/NFYl2zy80-D5Iitf/images/greatbook/walkthrough/01-typewriter-picker.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=NFYl2zy80-D5Iitf&q=85&s=f7035e76ef98581261b1b386cd654197" alt="Typewriter picker showing the complete document type registry" width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/greatbook/walkthrough/01-typewriter-picker.png" />
</Frame>

## 2 · Compose against the live document

The form and the document move together.
The walked invoice uses synthetic demo values and one line item; the preview is the document the next person will inspect.

<Frame caption="A completed supplier VAT invoice and its live rendered preview, before save.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/vinmake/NFYl2zy80-D5Iitf/images/greatbook/walkthrough/05-builder-complete.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=NFYl2zy80-D5Iitf&q=85&s=81b22a899e2974d844f5c27e8322c158" alt="Completed supplier VAT invoice builder with one line item and a live rendered preview" width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/greatbook/walkthrough/05-builder-complete.png" />
</Frame>

The same screen refuses an empty save.
That control is shown in [Refusals and revisions](/greatbook/guides/refusals-and-revisions).

## 3 · Save, then stop the maker at approval

Saving creates the document detail with the rendered PDF, the approval trail, handoff state, and stored values together.
The author sees the rule immediately: another designated approver has to sign.

<Frame caption="The author can inspect the saved record, but cannot approve the document they made.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/vinmake/NFYl2zy80-D5Iitf/images/greatbook/walkthrough/06-maker-cannot-approve.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=NFYl2zy80-D5Iitf&q=85&s=d606a8b32ec594791c53be718b39565e" alt="Saved Typewriter document with the maker approval refusal" width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/greatbook/walkthrough/06-maker-cannot-approve.png" />
</Frame>

## 4 · A separate approver inspects the same document

The designated approver sees the same PDF and stored values with the approval action available.

<Frame caption="The approver-ready view before signing.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/vinmake/NFYl2zy80-D5Iitf/images/greatbook/walkthrough/07-approver-ready.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=NFYl2zy80-D5Iitf&q=85&s=cbe4ecaee9e60cd1a53f20a70bfea7a3" alt="Supplier VAT invoice detail ready for a separate approver" width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/greatbook/walkthrough/07-approver-ready.png" />
</Frame>

## 5 · Approval is visible before handoff

Back in Documents, the row is **Approved** and the handoff remains a separate next action.
That boundary is visible without implying that the document is already in review or in the ledger.

<Frame caption="Approved is not submitted: the Documents row keeps those states and actions separate.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/vinmake/NFYl2zy80-D5Iitf/images/greatbook/walkthrough/08-approved-document-list.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=NFYl2zy80-D5Iitf&q=85&s=52bfc1306d14a5c6c03bbb3731ee7cea" alt="Approved Typewriter document row with a separate submit action" width="1440" height="1000" data-path="images/greatbook/walkthrough/08-approved-document-list.png" />
</Frame>

<Warning>
  The visual walkthrough ends here because the next operation did not complete on the local current branch.
  No current screenshot in this guide claims an intake row, a draft entry, a posting approval, or a posted ledger entry.
</Warning>

## Related

* [1 · Compose the document](/greatbook/guides/compose-a-document)
* [2 · Sign it](/greatbook/guides/approve-a-document)
* [Refusals and revisions](/greatbook/guides/refusals-and-revisions)
* [The product, screen by screen](/greatbook/guides/product-tour)
* [Typewriter to posted journal entry](/greatbook/technical/typewriter-to-ledger) - the source-traced technical path beyond the visual evidence