User guide

Approvals and receipts

What waits for you, and how to see and undo what Pimpo did.

Approvals and rules#

• Needs you is one list of everything waiting for you: approvals (with For this routine where it applies), keys Pimpo asked you for privately (each opens its own form), questions from routines (tap an option or type the answer), routines stopped after a failure, jobs that ran into a problem (for a week) or whose plan waits to be started, tasks ready to review, how many lessons wait for you and, for the administrator, suggestions and parts of the house that stopped working.
  • The most urgent comes first: an approval about to expire (it says when), then approvals, questions, what broke, and the rest; within each, the newest first.
  • Filter by kind with the tabs on top. Answer in place: allow or deny, pick an answer, run a routine again or redo it with the agent, or open a job or task.
  • The bell (in the header on the phone, at the bottom of the menu on the computer) shows how many things wait and opens the same list; Home shows the first three.
  • It only ever shows your own things, the administrator included, and it updates by itself as things change.
• Approval buttons: Allow (this time), All this run (the rest of this run), Always (this routine, from now on), Deny.
• For this routine lets a routine repeat exactly this action without asking again: the same kind of action to the same recipients, on the same site, with an amount up to the one you approved (you can raise the limit in Needs you). A different recipient, site or larger amount asks again, and so does a new version of the routine. The email's words can change every day; who it goes to cannot. Routines › Approved for routines lists these approvals and takes any back. It is safer than Always, which allows the whole capability for that routine. Members use it for their own routines; WhatsApp to other people, locks and alarms still always ask. On WhatsApp it takes the place of Always, which stays in the app.
• Rules: write rules in plain words ("never delete emails from my boss"). You see exactly what the rule will enforce, and a test against last week, before saving.
• Some things always ask, whatever the rules say: WhatsApp to other people, locks and alarms.

Receipts and undo#

Every action has a receipt: what was done, with which arguments, under which rule. Reversible actions can be undone from the receipt. Deletes go to the trash, and sent emails wait 10 minutes before leaving.

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