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Send a direct message
Write privately to one colleague or start a group chat.
Direct messages are private chats inside SimplyDo, with one colleague or several. Only the people in a chat can read it.
Click the envelope at the top of the page. Direct messages opens with your latest chats.
In Find a recipient…, start typing your colleague’s name and click them in the results. They’re added under Selected recipients.
Click Message user. Your chat with them opens at the bottom of the screen. If you’ve written to each other before, you carry on where you left off.
Write your message and click the send button, or press Shift+Enter. Enter on its own starts a new line.
Click the envelope at the top of the page. Direct messages opens with your latest chats.
In Find a recipient…, find and click each person you want in the chat. They’re added under Selected recipients; click the cross next to someone to take them off again.
Click Start group chat. The chat opens at the bottom of the screen.
Write your message and send it. Everyone in the chat gets it.
To give the chat a name, click the names at the top of it and type one.
Your colleagues see a number on their envelope and, depending on their settings, get an email or a push notification on their phone. If you see Messaging not enabled for one or more participants, one of the people you picked belongs to an organisation that doesn’t use direct messages.