What it can do
What a connected assistant can read and change in each tool, and how to undo its changes.
A connected assistant acts as you, with your permissions. Everything it changes is credited to you, through your app.
Reading #
Every connection can:
- list your projects and their schemes;
- read schedules (with their computed dates), Pinup decks page by page, timecards a week at a time, and the saved work of every other tool;
- read a climate study's weather numbers: climate zone, design temperatures, degree days, rain, snow and wind;
- list snapshots and compare versions, to answer "what changed since…";
- search the library and read articles.
Making changes #
Only with Let it make changes ticked, and only where you're an editor:
| Tool | What it can do |
|---|---|
| Schedule | Create schedules, and add, move, link and delete tasks. |
| Cartoon Set | Create a drawing set, for example from your Excel or CSV sheet list, and edit it. |
| Wall Sections | Edit wall assemblies. |
| Space Ledger | Edit space programs. |
| Timecard | Log time, punch in and out, and set up codes on your own timecard. Submitting a week stays in the app. |
| Pinup | Propose changes. They wait in the deck's Queue until a person executes them. |
It can also take snapshots, and restore an earlier version of a schedule, wall assembly, space program, Cartoon Set or timecard. Every other tool is read-only through the connector.
It can never share, invite people, or delete schemes or projects.
Undo what it did #
Every change it makes is a new version. To undo one, ask it to restore the earlier version. You can also restore a snapshot yourself.
With changes on, one sentence can move a lot. For big edits, ask it to preview first.
Try asking #
- "What's coming up on the schedule in the next two weeks?"
- "What changed since my last snapshot?"
- "Add a 3-day review after Design Development and star it."
- "Make a Cartoon Set from this sheet list" (attach your spreadsheet).
- "Search the library for rainscreen walls and give me the key points."
Feedback from your assistant #
When you ask for something the tools can't do, the assistant says so plainly and offers to write it up as a feature idea or bug report. It shows you the draft, then gives you a link to your account.
- Open the link, signed in.
- Read the report.
- Click Send to the team, or Discard to delete it.
Nothing reaches us until you click Send to the team. An unsent report is deleted after a while.