Work with your troop
Talk in the troop chat
Use the one group chat of people and teammates: threads, mentions, reactions and the updates of teammates.
The troop chat is one group chat for the people and the teammates of a workspace. Each message starts a thread, and the teammates that the message calls on answer in that thread. Teammates also post there what they finish.
Open the troop chat
Select Troop chat under Your troop in the sidebar. The line under it shows the latest message.
Guests do not see the troop chat. Viewers and approvers read it, and do not write in it.
Write to the troop
- Type in the box at the bottom. It says Write to the troop... @ calls on a teammate, / for a skill.
- Type @ and a name to call on a teammate. Type @all to call on every teammate.
- Select Send, or press Enter.
Under the box, a line says who gets the message, for example "Goes to Atlas · @all calls on everyone".
Who answers a message
| What the message names | Who answers |
|---|---|
| One or more teammates, with @ | Each teammate that it names. |
| @all | Every teammate of the troop. |
| No teammate, in the room | The Chief of Staff. |
| No teammate, in a thread | The teammate that the last message of a person in the thread went to. |
In a workspace with 2 or more people, a message that names no teammate goes to the Chief of Staff first, as a quick read. The Chief of Staff then answers, looks into it quietly, reacts, or leaves the message to the people. A quiet look only reads, and posts only what it found. The box says: "Name no one and" the Chief of Staff "sees whether it's for the troop."
Threads
Each message is the start of a thread. Select Reply in thread under a message to open its thread in a column at
the right edge. The address of the page holds the open thread (?thread=). Select Close the thread to close it.
- Each teammate answers a thread in one run at a time. If you write again while it works, the teammate reads your new message in the same run.
- The work of a teammate in a thread lives on one task. The thread links to the task.
- A teammate that finishes a task posts the result in the thread of the task. A task with no thread posts in the room.
Reactions
Point to a message and pick a reaction. A message takes one of 9 reactions. Teammates react too, for example to say that they saw a message.
Stop an answer
To stop a teammate while it answers, send a message that only says "stop" in the thread. The person who asked can stop it, and so can owners and admins.
What teammates bring in
When a teammate reads a connected service or searches the web in a thread, Troopy keeps what it found. It keeps the latest 8 finds, for 6 hours. The next teammate that answers in the thread sees it as "Found earlier in this thread", if it has the same tool and can read the same records. Troopy never keeps what a quiet look found.
Limits
- A person sends at most 20 messages a minute to teammates, in all chats together.
- The quick reads of the Chief of Staff have caps for each hour and each day. Answers that nobody asked for do not use the daily runs of a teammate.