Work with your troop
Chat with a teammate and call it
Talk to one teammate in its chat, attach docs and files, ask for a skill, and talk to it by voice.
Each teammate has a chat of its own. You talk to one teammate there, give it work, read what it does, and call it by voice. This page tells how to use the chat of a teammate and its call.
Open the chat of a teammate
Select the teammate under Your troop in the sidebar. Its chat opens. The header of the page has these parts:
| Part | What it does |
|---|---|
| Face and name | The face moves while the teammate works. A glowing ember shows when it needs you. |
| Chat and Overview | Switches between the chat and the overview of the teammate. |
| Call | Starts a voice call with the teammate. |
| Watch computer | Shows the screen of the computer of your troop. Owners and admins only. |
| Configure | Opens the settings of the teammate in Settings > Troop. |
| A line | What the teammate does now, such as "Working: writes the post of Friday". |
Overview shows the numbers of the teammate, its drafts, its routines and its work.
Talk to the teammate
- Type in the box. It says "Message" and the name of the teammate.
- Select Send, or press Enter. Shift with Enter starts a new line.
The teammate answers in the chat. While it works, a thinking orb shows, with a line that says what it does and the time since it started. Under the answer, a line such as "Worked for 34 s · 5 steps" opens each step of the run.
While the teammate works, you can still write. The box says "Add to what" the teammate "is working on". The teammate reads your new message in the same run, or in the next run.
What you can add to a message
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| @ | Brings another teammate into the conversation. |
| / at the start | Opens the skills of the teammate. The message asks for that skill. |
| # | Links a doc, as a link that the teammate reads. |
| Attach | Adds text, PDF or Word files. Troopy keeps them in the brain. |
| Add a doc, task or interview to read | Adds docs, tasks, interviews, research, canvases or lists. |
A teammate gets only what its tools read. The chip of each thing that you add shows over the box.
Threads
Each conversation can open threads in a column at the right edge. Select Reply in thread under an answer. The header then shows only the face, the name and the job, so that the chat keeps its place.
What a teammate shows in its answers
- Cites: the chips under an answer name the docs and notes of the brain that the answer used. A chip opens its doc. Select "That's wrong" on a note that is wrong. See Manage what your troop remembers.
- Approvals: a call that needs a yes shows as a card. Owners and admins decide some calls. See Answer what needs you.
- Drafts: what the teammate wrote for you to use. A brief, a copy or an article goes to Docs too.
- Pictures: cards, art and screenshots that the teammate made for the task.
Call a teammate
A call lets you talk to the teammate. Each thing that you ask goes to the teammate as a typed ask, with the same approvals and limits as a message.
- Select Call in the header. If the browser asks, allow the microphone.
- Talk. The teammate speaks first. The screen shows the captions of the call.
- To type, select Type. The call ends, and the cursor goes to the box of the chat.
- To end the call, select End call.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Microphone | Turns the microphone off and on. |
| Minimize, or Escape | Makes the call a small bar. The call stays on. Select the bar to open it again. |
| Type | Ends the call, and lets you type. |
| End call | Ends the call. |
When the teammate finishes the work that you asked for, it says the answer on the call. The chat keeps what both sides said. The chat shows "on a call" for that conversation.
Problems with a call
| Message | What to do |
|---|---|
| "Allow the microphone to talk, or type instead." | Allow the microphone for troopy.ai in the settings of your browser. |
| "No microphone was found. Type instead." | Connect a microphone, or type. |
| "This browser can't take a call. Type instead." | Use a current version of Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox. |
| "The call dropped. Talk again, or type instead." | Start the call again. |
Who can chat
- Owners, admins and members chat with teammates.
- Viewers and approvers read the chats, and send nothing.
- Guests have no chat with teammates.