Messages and meetings
Channels, direct messages, broadcasts, and meetings on the rota.
How messages and meetings work
The ideas behind Messages and meetings: the three kinds of chat, what notifies you, how long things are kept, and who runs a meeting.Web and iPhoneSend a message
Write in a chat on the web or the iPhone, attach photos and files, record a voice message, and edit or delete what you sent.Web and iPhoneStart a chat or a group
Message one person or several, make a named group, and add people to a chat that is already going.Web and iPhoneSend a broadcast
Send an announcement to one team, several teams or part of a team, ask everyone to confirm they have read it, and remind the people who have not.Web and iPhoneConfirm a broadcast
Tell your manager you have read an announcement by pressing Got it, on the web or the iPhone.Web and iPhoneReply, react and mention someone
Answer one message or one photo, add a reaction, and use @ to get a person’s attention or everyone who is on shift.Web and iPhoneKeep a photo or file
Photos, videos, files and voice messages in a chat are deleted after 30 days. Press Keep on the ones worth holding on to.Web and iPhoneMute a chat
Stop a busy chat from notifying you, and know what still gets through: broadcasts and messages that mention you.Web and iPhonePin a message
Keep an important message to hand at the top of a chat’s details, and unpin it when it is out of date.Web and iPhoneSee who has read a message
Check how many people have seen your message, and open the list of who has and who has not.Web and iPhoneManage a group chat
Rename a group, add and remove people, leave or archive it, make a team chat announcements only, and export a chat.Web and iPhoneSet the messaging rules
Decide whether people can message colleagues at other locations, and how long message text is kept, for the whole business.WebSet a meeting
Put a meeting on the rota, say whether the time is paid, choose who is invited and send it, from the web or the iPhone.Web and iPhoneAnswer a meeting invitation
Say Going or Can’t to a meeting you have been invited to, change your answer, and see the agenda and who else is coming.Web and iPhoneChange or cancel a meeting
Move a meeting, edit its details, add or remove people, remind those who have not answered, cancel it, or set the same one again next week.Web and iPhoneSend meeting notes
Write up a meeting as Summary, Decided and To do, send it to everyone invited, and turn the to-dos into tasks on a board.Web and iPhoneSay who came to a meeting
Tick who was at a meeting once it has happened. For a paid meeting, this is what pays the people who were not already clocked in.Web and iPhone