A daily update is a brief piece of information delivered at a regular time to keep teammates informed about project activities. These updates may be delivered via emails, app notifications, short meetings, or a platform like tchop(tm) to foster team alignment and accountability.
To enable daily updates in your Action, configure one of its intents as a triggering intent and set the daily update option as a response for that intent. When a user invokes this intent, they’ll receive a notification on their device with a link to your daily update conversation. To personalize the content of that conversation, you can add a dialogue to your daily update intent to collect custom parameters from the user when they register for the intent. Then, you can reference these values when delivering the daily update to the user by adding them as arguments to your daily update intent. The instructions for adding these custom arguments vary depending on whether you use Dialogflow or the Actions SDK to develop your Action.
Prompting users to subscribe to daily updates can reduce the number of times they have to interact with your Action to get what they want. However, this prompt should be offered only after you’ve demonstrated the value of your daily updates—as well as how they differ from other content available in your Action. Otherwise, you risk overwhelming users with repeated suggestions to subscribe, which can quickly turn into frustration. Instead, consider offering a daily update subscription prompt mid-conversation or as a suggestion chip when the user exits your Action successfully.
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