Create and manage projects

Create a project in Fliplet Studio with AI or the drag and drop builder, then find, rename, duplicate, archive, restore, or permanently delete it.

A project is what you build and edit in Fliplet Studio, and the Home page lists yours under Your projects. This page shows how to start a project, find it, copy it, and remove one you no longer need.

Before you start

Everything on this page starts from the Home page of Fliplet Studio. Home lists two kinds of project: projects built with AI, and projects built with the drag and drop builder, which carry a Drag & Drop badge.

The steps use the labels for AI projects. On a Drag & Drop project the same controls say app in place of project: Restore app, and in dialogs Cloned app name, Duplicate app, Archive app, and Delete app. [UNVERIFIED: the dialog labels come from code; the dialogs weren't opened in Studio]

What you can do depends on your access level, shown in Manage users > Manage access on the project. See Manage users, roles and permissions.

The person who creates a project gets Full Access to it. Changes to a locked project are refused, and restoring a project also runs a plan check.

AI projects use credits from your organization's pool. The standard charges are 15 credits for each project in the workspace and 2 credits for each archived project, and both repeat each credit cycle. An organization can have different rates. Drag & Drop projects don't take these charges. See Understand Fliplet credits.

Create a project with AI

The prompt box shows under What should we build? when AI building is available to you. If Home shows New project instead, follow Create a project with the drag and drop builder.

1. On Home, describe what you want in the prompt box under What should we build?.
2. Select Start Building.

Start Building stays disabled until you enter text or attach a file. To get help with the description, select Help me describe it, which opens questions for you to answer.

Studio creates a project named Untitled project and opens it in the editor. The AI gives the project a short name before it starts building.

To check it worked, look for the Build, Design, and Code tabs in the project, then find the project under Your projects on Home.

On a free plan, Fliplet checks the description first, and each check is metered. If the check stops the build, no project is created and your text stays in the box:

• A description with no clear subject opens the questions.
• A request that isn't for software, or that Fliplet can't build, shows a message with Edit what I wrote and Help me describe it.
• Software built to entertain, such as a game, shows a message about its credit use with Edit what I wrote and See your options. [UNVERIFIED: Edit what I wrote and See your options come from code; showing them needs a build attempt]

Create a project with the drag and drop builder

When Home shows the prompt box and you already have Drag & Drop projects, Pick a solution appears under it and takes you to the solutions page on fliplet.com. Without any Drag & Drop projects, Home shows no drag and drop route.

If Home shows New project:

1. Select New project.
2. If Studio asks how you want to build, select Start building under Drag & drop builder. [UNVERIFIED: these labels come from code; the chooser wasn't opened in Studio]

Studio continues with templates when your organization has them, otherwise the solutions page. [UNVERIFIED: the steps and values in this flow weren't checked]

To check it worked, find the project under Your projects with the Drag & Drop badge.

Find a project

Your projects lists the projects you have access to in your current organization, most recently updated first. All and Archived switch between active and archived projects.

1. Enter part of the project name or its ID in Search my projects.
2. Select Edit on the project card.

People who can't edit the project see Preview in place of Edit. To check it worked, confirm the project opens.

If a project isn't listed, check Archived, then check the organization shown under your name at the top of Home. If it's still not listed, you probably don't have access to it, so ask someone with Full Access to add you.

Rename a project

Project names can be up to 80 characters.

1. On Home, select More on the project card.
2. Select Rename.
3. Enter the new name.
4. Confirm with Rename in the dialog. [UNVERIFIED: the confirm button label comes from code; the dialog wasn't opened in Studio]

To check it worked, look for the new name on the project card on Home.

In an AI project, you can also change Project name on the General tab of Settings in the project sidebar, then select Save.

Duplicate a project

A copy includes the project's screens, data sources with their records, settings, and icon. The number of records copied can be limited by your plan.

• A copy of an AI project includes its files, except deleted files and the system folders .fliplet and .tmp. The AI chat history isn't copied, so the copy starts with a fresh conversation.
• A copy of a Drag & Drop project includes the files its components use.

The copy isn't published, and the person duplicating gets Full Access to it. Duplicating an AI project takes the workspace credit charge.

1. On Home, select More on the project card.
2. Select Duplicate.
3. Enter a name in Cloned project name. The name starts as Copy of plus the project's name. [UNVERIFIED: the field label comes from code; the dialog wasn't opened in Studio]
4. If you belong to more than one organization, choose the target in Organization. [UNVERIFIED: the field label comes from code; the dialog wasn't opened in Studio]
5. Select Duplicate project. [UNVERIFIED: the button label comes from code; the dialog wasn't opened in Studio]

To check it worked, look for the success message. The copy appears under Your projects when it's in your current organization.

Archive a project

> [!WARNING] > Archiving affects everyone using the project's published software. Native apps stop working and the web version is unavailable. Any active plan on the project is cancelled. Fliplet Hub users lose their access records for the project, and a Hub user with access to no other project is removed.

For an AI project, archiving gives back the workspace charge and any published project charge, and adds the archived charge.

1. On Home, select More on the project card.
2. Select Archive.
3. Confirm with Archive in the dialog. [UNVERIFIED: the confirm button label comes from code; the dialog wasn't opened in Studio]

To check it worked, confirm the project has left All and appears under Archived.

Restore an archived project

Restoring brings back the project and its published software. It starts as soon as you select it, with no confirmation dialog. Restoring an AI project takes the workspace charge again, plus the published project charge if it applies.

1. On Home, select Archived.
2. Select Restore project on the project card.

To check it worked, confirm the project is back under All.

Delete a project permanently

> [!CAUTION] > This cannot be undone. Deleting removes the project, its published software, screens, notifications, submissions, actions, shared content, analytics, and tokens. A custom domain on the project is removed, and any active plan is cancelled.

Data sources aren't deleted: they move to your organization. Files and folders move to the organization's trash.

A project has to be archived before you can delete it. See Archive a project.

1. On Home, select Archived.
2. Select Delete permanently on the project card.
3. Confirm with Delete in the dialog. [UNVERIFIED: the confirm button label comes from code; the dialog wasn't opened in Studio]

To check it worked, confirm the project is gone from Archived.

If an action doesn't work

• Not enough credits: Starting, duplicating, or restoring an AI project is refused when the organization doesn't have enough credits. Studio shows an out-of-credits message that offers admins a way to top up or upgrade and tells other users who to ask.
• Plan can't be cancelled: Archiving or deleting stops if the project's plan can't be cancelled, and the message asks you to try again.

See also

• Create, preview and publish your first app: a guided first build.
• Navigate Fliplet Studio: move around a project.
• Write effective prompts for Fliplet AI: write better descriptions.
• Archive, restore and delete apps: the administrator view.
• Understand Fliplet credits: what projects cost.