Messaging a teammate that's already working
Your message waits its turn rather than interrupting. You can push it to the front, or stop the work.
Send something to a teammate mid-task and it does not interrupt them. It queues, and they pick it up when the current piece of work finishes. Nothing is lost and nothing is cut off halfway.
While anything is waiting, the composer shows a count: 1 waiting, 3 waiting. Click it to open the queue and see what is actually in there, including messages that arrived from other teammates rather than from you.
Thread · 2 waiting
Two things you can do with a waiting message
- 1Send now. Pushes that one message through immediately instead of waiting for the current work to finish. Use it when what you have just said changes what they should be doing.
- 2Remove it. Takes it out of the queue so it never arrives. Useful when you have thought better of it, or answered your own question while waiting.
Stopping work that's already running
If a teammate is going the wrong way, stop them. The turn ends in a couple of seconds rather than running to completion, and the thread marks it as stopped by you, so it reads as a decision rather than a failure.
NoteStopping ends the current turn, not the teammate. Anything queued behind it is still there, and scheduled routines are unaffected.
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