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Goals helps a community turn shared ideas into visible, organized work. Use this guide to understand the planning model, choose the right surface, or follow a complete workflow from creation through completion.

Goals gives a community a shared place to turn ideas into visible work. It is a lightweight planning layer for a space: structured enough to show what matters and who is helping, but deliberately less formal than a company project tracker. Each goal combines two useful shapes. On the board it is a compact card that can move through the community's workflow. Open it, and it becomes a full article with the context, discussion, and supporting content needed to help someone understand the work and c

Goal references give each goal a readable label that is easy to recognize on a board and easy to share in Chat. A label such as `VS-42` combines a space's goal key with the goal's number in that space. The label is a convenient name, not a fragile link. When someone selects a goal through the Chat picker, the shared reference continues to follow that intended goal even if its visible label later changes.

Completed Goals keeps finished work available as a record of progress after it no longer needs space on the active board. It is the second stage of completion: first a goal reaches a `Done` category, then a manager may clear that column into history without deleting the goal or its article.

The Goals board keeps a community's active work visible without turning participation into a heavy project-management process. It gives members one place to see what is waiting, what is underway, and what has been finished, while leaving future work in the [backlog](backlog.md).

The backlog is the Goals workspace for worthwhile work that is not ready to occupy the active board. It lets a space keep promising ideas, paused efforts, and later priorities without mixing them into the work people are trying to move forward now. A backlog goal is still a complete goal. Moving it away from the board changes its placement, not its identity or the context people have already built around it.

Use this walkthrough to place important published work in Expo, confirm where it appears, and remove it when it no longer belongs in the showcase.

Use this walkthrough to find selected work without searching the entire document library. For the broader purpose of the showcase, start with the [Expo overview](../expo.md).

Expo turns selected published work into a focused showcase for a space and its areas. Use this guide to understand what appears at each level, explore community highlights, or maintain the selection as a space owner.

Expo is the official showcase for a space and its areas. It brings selected posts, articles, events, goals, and documents into one visual collection so visitors can quickly understand what the community values and has accomplished.