topic Re: Task message VS text message in Teamwork & BIMcloud

Task message VS text message

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:34:44 GMT

On page 28 of the collaboration guide, it talks about sending "simple text messages." How is this done? It does not explain how to do this, nor can I find it anywhere. I know how to send a "task message" through the teamwork palette, but the "text message" is supposed to pop up on someone's screen, not be inconspicuously hidden in the teamwork palette like a task message is...

Help?

Re: Task message VS text message

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:43:07 GMT

No one?

Karl? Laszlo?

Re: Task message VS text message

Brett Brown — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:07:23 GMT

Perhaps if you post in the right forum you might get an answer

Re: Task message VS text message

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:13:23 GMT

Thanks, very helpful.

Re: Task message VS text message

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:09:22 GMT

Steven wrote:
On page 28 of the collaboration guide, it talks about sending "simple text messages." How is this done? It does not explain how to do this, nor can I find it anywhere. I know how to send a "task message" through the teamwork palette, but the "text message" is supposed to pop up on someone's screen, not be inconspicuously hidden in the teamwork palette like a task message is...

Help?

Karl is on the road so he may not be able to check the Talk frequently.

Just select the Users you want to send the message to in the Users panel of the Teamwork Palette, right-click and select Send Message from the context menu. Or click the Sen Message button at the bottom of the Users panel of the Teamwork Palette (third button from right).
Then type your Message and send them.
It is possible to define an optional Task for them to perform when they receive the Message. If you select Receive Changes, for example, such a command button will appear in their Message from you. They can read your message, see that they need to Receive changes and they can just click the Receive Changes button in the Message Box to do it.

Re: Task message VS text message

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:55:10 GMT

Thanks, Laszlo. I'm kind of back (conference most of the rest of the week)...

Steve asked about the pop-up message - and you get that by sending the message as Laszlo indicates - a cute little spiral bound pop-up in your main workspace. It appears for only a few seconds unless the priority has been set to high in which case it stays on the screen.

Karl

Re: Task message VS text message

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:59:08 GMT

Karl wrote:
Steve asked about the pop-up message - and you get that by sending the message as Laszlo indicates - a cute little spiral bound pop-up in your main workspace. It appears for only a few seconds unless the priority has been set to high in which case it stays on the screen.

Karl

Ok, I just tried it per Laszlo's instructions. I right click on the user in the teamwork palette, and click send message. It does not pop up on the main workspace, it shows on the other team members screen in the teamwork palette under the message section. Am I doing something wrong? This is not a "pop up" message...

Re: Task message VS text message

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:04:32 GMT

Oh - forget the last comment. Got it to work, it took a minute the first time but now they are popping up immediately. Thanks!

Re: Task message VS text message

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:11:32 GMT

It seems now though that even when I send a message through the normal channels (click send message in the teamwork palette), it will pop up on the team members screen for a few seconds, as well as show up in the teamwork palette. This is normal? Is the duplicity supposed to happen?

Re: Task message VS text message

Eduardo Rolon — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:31:01 GMT

Change the Priority so that they stay put. If i remember correctly normal messages Pop in at regular intervals, High Priority stay on screen until dismissed.

Re: Task message VS text message

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:17:34 GMT

Steven wrote:
It seems now though that even when I send a message through the normal channels (click send message in the teamwork palette), it will pop up on the team members screen for a few seconds, as well as show up in the teamwork palette. This is normal? Is the duplicity supposed to happen?

Yes / normal. The cool pop-up (fades in and stays translucent on Mac at least) is an 'attention getter' (and stays put if high priority). The message center in the TW palette is the permanent archive of all messages - you can read, archive, delete, respond with the buttons there. It is often the case that so many messages come at once that you may notice the pop-up, but still need to go through your TW inbox.

The element messages are similar, but happen when you request someone else's reserved elements or assign elements to someone else.

Karl

Re: Task message VS text message

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:21:55 GMT

Got it Karl, thanks.

Re: Task message VS text message

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:16:33 GMT

The following checkbox of the Work Environment Dialog controls whether these messages appear for you or not.
If it is turned off, they will not appear on screen, only in the Message panel of the Teamwork Palette. Not even the ones with high priority will appear in that case.
But it looks to me like it becomes effective only after I restart ArchiCAD. When I unchecked it I still the messages on the screen. After I closed and restarted ArchiCAD, it worked fine. That may not be the way it is supposed to work.