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What changed

The dashboard creation path of DashboardService reads as named steps. This PR touches different methods than the open group-delete / publication split of the same file and merges cleanly with it.

• createDashboard (public, signature unchanged): assertMayCreate (public-share bearer, quota, parent — in that order, before anything is built) → factory (factoryOptions) → applyNewIcon → assertNewSlugUnique → deactivate → insert → completeNewDashboard (seedPrimaryTranslation, then the default widgets when asked).
• resolveTemplateRung → templateStepsAside (owns a dashboard, or a group-less template yielding to the primary group's default) → view-only answer or copyTemplateFor.
• tryCreateFromTemplate hands a template to the resolver as before, else provisionPersonalDashboard → seedFromRoleDefaults → provisionedPlacements (role-seeded placements, or the default bundle only when nothing was seeded).

Every check runs in the original order before the writes it guards; the writes, logs and results are the same.

Characterisation tests

tests/Unit/Service/DashboardServiceCreationGoldenTest.php was committed first, against the old code, and passes before and after: the exact sequence of checks and writes of a full create, a create with defaults and without optional collaborators, an empty slug skipping the uniqueness check, the quota and public-share refusals stopping before any check or write, a failed translation seed logged while creation goes on, and every provisioning branch (template, no template with personal dashboards off, role defaults, nothing seeded, no role service). Mutation check: dropping the quota check on the old code turned two goldens red; restored before committing. The existing template-rung, create-defaults, quota-wiring and create goldens pass unchanged.

What ran

• vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit.xml --no-coverage tests/Unit: 2755 tests OK (13 skipped, as on development).
• vendor/bin/phpcs and vendor/bin/phpstan analyse on lib/Service/DashboardService.php: clean.

Figures (touched file lib/Service/DashboardService.php)

	before	after
units over complexity 5 (createDashboard, resolveTemplateRung, tryCreateFromTemplate)	3 units, 120 lines	0
units over complexity 5, whole file	11 units, 325 lines	8 units, 205 lines (the rest is split in the other open PR)
units over 15 lines of code	42 units, 1,059 lines	39 units, 939 lines
units over 2 parameters	22 units, 540 lines	22 units, 507 lines

App-wide: unit complexity 4.02 → 4.08, unit size 3.40 → 3.42, unit interfacing 3.14 → 3.15.

Maintainability floor: compare against development holds.

AI-assisted: prepared with Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5); reviewed by a maintainer before merge.

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