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Getting started

Set up your workspace, invite your team and find your way around Do.

What is Do, in a sentence?

Do is one live workspace for your whole company: tasks, a shared whiteboard, voice calls with screen sharing, files, a weekly rota and who's around right now, all at your own address, such as yourcompany.businlog.com. Changes appear for everyone who can see them the moment they happen, so nobody has to refresh the page or ask which version is the latest.

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Workspace & people

Companies, projects and departments, roles, guest links, and who can see what.

What's the difference between an admin and a member?

Admins look after the team: they add and remove people, set passcodes, choose who sees what, run the rota, see reports and connect email. Only admins can add, rename or delete companies, and only admins can delete a project or department. Members get on with the work in the places they can see: unless they're read-only, they can add, change and delete tasks and whiteboard items there, and they can delete files they added themselves. Members who can edit a company can add and rename the projects and departments inside it. A workspace always keeps at least one admin.

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Rota, breaks & presence

The weekly rota, breaks, who's around, the world clock, checklists and reports.

How does the rota work?

Each company or project can have a weekly rota with 1 to 12 shift types, each with a name, start and end times and a colour, such as Early, Late and Night. Admins put people on days, move them or take them off, and can copy last week to save time. Hours are worked out for each shift, overnight ones included, and everyone else can see the rota.

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How will I know about my shifts?

You get a notification when you're put on a new shift, and My shifts lists everything you're on for the next 14 days. Admins also have an On shift now view showing who the rota says should be working.

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How do breaks work?

Open your profile menu and start a break: tea, lunch, prayer or personal. Your teammates can see you're on a break, and you can see today's total. Every 15 minutes Do gives you a gentle “come back?” nudge. Starting a break takes you out of any call, and anyone who rings you is told you're on a break.

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How can I see who's around?

On a wide screen, the Team now panel beside the task list shows who's online, whether they're on a phone or a computer, who's in a call, who's on a break and who's free, and when people were last seen. The avatars at the top of a project show who has it open right now.

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What is the world clock?

The clock in the sidebar shows UK time to start with. Click it to show up to three places at once, chosen from a list of 39, from Ireland and Poland to India, the Philippines and the United States, so you can see whether it's a sensible time to ring a colleague abroad. Your choice is remembered on each device. To go back to UK time only, choose Back to UK only.

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What's the daily checklist?

Admins can set up a daily checklist for each project, with items for certain departments only, an optional shift report step and figures for departments to fill in. People tick through it for today or yesterday, and the admins who are online are told when it's submitted. Admins can see the whole team's progress for any day.

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What reports can admins see?

For any project and a date range of up to about 3 months: checklist completion, shift-report figures, tasks finished (by whom and when), tasks created, open and overdue tasks, and breaks per person per day. You can download a report as CSV to open in a spreadsheet.

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