Releasing a new plan

When you rebuild a client's plan, you don't edit what they're looking at live. Instead you work in a private draft: a copy of their current training program and nutrition plan that only you can see. You rebuild it at your own pace, and the client keeps following their existing plan until you release the new one — at which point both the training and nutrition changes go live together.

Start a draft

Open a client and look at the top-right of their header. With no draft in progress you'll see Create program draft. Click it and confirm — we copy the client's current training program and nutrition plan into a draft you can rebuild. Nothing the client sees changes yet.

Editing a draft — it saves itself

While a draft is open, the Program and Nutrition plan tabs edit the draft, not the live plan. You'll notice:

• A soft lavender frame around the editor, labelled Program draft / Nutrition plan draft, with the reminder that changes aren't visible to the client.
• No "Save changes" button. Edits save themselves a moment after you pause — the status reads Saving… and then Saved just now. You can move between the Program and Nutrition tabs, close the page, or come back tomorrow; your draft is waiting.
• A banner above the tabs and a small action bar pinned to the bottom-right, both carrying Discard and Release so you can publish without scrolling back up.

Any coach note you write on the program or nutrition section while drafting is part of the draft too — the client only sees it once you release.

Release or discard

• Release publishes the draft training and nutrition plans at once. The client's current plan is archived, they see the new one, and they get a "new plan" prompt the next time they open the app.
• Discard throws the draft away. The client's current plan stays exactly as it was.

The live plan is read-only

When there's no draft in progress, a client's Program and Nutrition tabs show the live plan for reference, but you can't edit it directly — there's no Save bar. To make any change, click Create program draft and edit the draft. This keeps you from accidentally pushing half-finished changes straight to the client.

Building library templates (under Library and Nutrition → Meal plans) is different — those still use a Save button, because a template isn't tied to a client and has nothing to release.