Bob builds the page. You decide who opens it.

Ask for one

Ask for a dashboard, a report or a live view in a thread, for example “build me a page of this month’s sales”. The numbers can come from an app you have connected, from figures you give him, or from a public web address. Bob replies with a link and says who can open it.

Ask for changes in the same thread and he updates the same link, so nobody has to find a new one.

Who can open it

• Your teammates. The link opens for anyone signed in to your HeyBob console for this workspace. You sign in with Slack, with no separate password. Someone who is not signed in sees a sign-in page with the page’s title, but not its content. Someone signed in to a different workspace sees a not found page.
• A record of opens. HeyBob records each time a person opens a page.
• The Pages list. Every member can see the workspace’s 50 most recent pages in one place in the console.

Share one page outside your team

A public link is off by default. An admin, or the person who owns the page, can turn it on from that page’s detail screen in the console.

• Anyone holding the link can read that page without signing in. They see the page and nothing else in your workspace.
• The link is shown once, right after you turn it on. Copy it then.
• Choosing Rotate link replaces the old link. Turning it off ends it, and the old link stops working, even for a page someone already has open.
• The link does not expire on its own. It works until someone turns it off or replaces it, or until your workspace removes Bob.

Keep its numbers current

A page that reads from an app you connected refreshes itself. When someone opens it and its numbers are at least 15 minutes old, Bob reads its sources again in the background and shows the last numbers meanwhile. Each refresh costs 20 credits, and opens through a public link count too. The Spend page lists these as page refreshes. A page that reads from a public web address checks it again whenever it opens, though never more than once every 30 seconds. To refresh on a timetable even when nobody opens the page, say “keep this updated every morning” and Bob ties a schedule to it. How schedules work.

When a page cannot go up

A page can be refused if it is too large, uses a file type Bob cannot host, or breaks a hosting rule. Bob says why in the thread and, in most cases, sends you the files instead, so the work is not lost.