A daily update is a report or summary of events, progress, or changes that occur on a daily basis. Teams typically provide a daily update of their work during morning meetings. This enables them to quickly navigate through their tasks, cut out redundant status updates, and spend more time managing the flow of work.
To enable daily updates in your Action, configure one of your Action’s intents as the triggering intent for this feature. When users invoke this intent, your Action should automatically open a conversation that asks for their day’s update. To personalize the content of this conversation, add custom parameters that users can submit when they register their daily updates. When you fulfill the update intent, reference these values in your response (instructions vary depending on whether you use Dialogflow or the Actions SDK for development).
Make sure your prompt makes sense to a user who jumps straight to your daily update’s intent. They won’t have much context, so be thoughtful when designing your prompt. Show your user the benefit of subscribing to your daily update and avoid repeating the offer in other contexts, such as when they first invoke your Action. This helps to ensure that your prompt is used regularly and doesn’t fade from memory over time. Once a user has subscribed to daily updates for your Action, they’ll receive Assistant notifications at their scheduled time each day. This feature is only available on Android and iOS devices with the Google Assistant app, and it’s not yet supported on voice-activated speakers or smart displays.
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