Pages from Ask

Ask can build a page from its answer: a report, a dashboard or a custom map, with its own charts, tables and maps. The page has a link of its own. You can change it by asking, refresh its data, go back to an earlier version, and share it by email or by link.

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Make a page

Ask for one in the Ask column, like Make a one-page report on the wells in view or Build a dashboard of this operator’s production. The agent gathers the data, lays out the page and publishes it. A card for the page appears in the answer:

• The page’s title, and its version (V2, V3…) once it has changed.
• Its description, or A page built from this answer’s data.
• Open page opens it in this tab. The icon beside it opens it in a new tab.
• Edit here, to change it from the map. See below.

New pages are private: only you can open one until you share it.

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Change a page from the map

Edit here on the card makes the page the subject of your next questions, without leaving the map:

• A chip above the question box reads Editing: ‹title›, and the box asks Ask about or change this page….
• Ask for a change, like add 2022 or make the bars blue. The agent publishes it as a new version, and the answer carries the page’s card again.
• While it’s on, the card’s button reads Editing. Click it again, or the ✕ on the chip (Stop editing this page), to go back to asking about the map. A New thread clears it too.

On a page someone shared with you to view, the card offers Copy & edit instead. It makes your own copy, titled ‹title› (copy), and you change that. The card’s badge says how a page is shared with you: CAN EDIT or VIEW ONLY. Your own pages have no badge.

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The page

Open a page from its card, from a shared link, or from Your pages. The page fills the window, with a bar across the top and a chat on the right. Across the bar, from the left:

• The arrow (Back to the map).
• The title, and who can see the page: Private · only you, Shared · 3 people, Shared · organization, Shared · project, Shared with you, or Anyone with the link.
• CAN EDIT or VIEW ONLY, on a page someone shared with you.
• The version button, like v3. See Versions.
• Copy link, Open in a new tab, and Ask about this page or Hide the chat.
• More (⋯) and Share.

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The More menu

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Versions

Every change makes a new version, and the older ones are kept. Click the version button (v3) to list them. Each shows its date, how it was made (PUBLISHED, DATA REFRESHED, COPIED or RESTORED V2), and a note on what changed. Click an older version to view it. A banner reads You’re viewing version 2 of 3:

• Restore this version makes it the latest again. It’s saved as a new version, so the one you replaced is still in the list. Owner and editors only.
• Back to latest returns to the newest version.

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Refresh the data

More → Refresh data re-runs the page’s data against today’s records: the same queries, over the same area. The layout doesn’t change. Click Refresh. When it’s done, Version 4 is up with today’s data. and a line for each set of data say what changed. The new version is the latest, and the old one stays in the list. Refreshing doesn’t use credits. If a refresh fails, nothing changes: the page keeps its last version. Ask about the page in its chat to rebuild data that no longer runs.

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Ask about this page

The chat on the right is Ask, about this page. Ask what it shows, like why is March low?, or ask for a change, like add 2022. A change becomes a new version, and the page switches to it with a note saying what changed.

• The chat picks up your last conversation about the page. New conversation starts another.
• If you can only view the page, a change you ask for is made on your own copy, and the answer links to it.
• Asking uses credits, the same as Ask on the map.
• Hide the chat in the bar folds it away, and Ask about this page brings it back. The page remembers your choice on this device.

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Move a page to the trash

Only the owner can do this. More → Move to trash asks Move this page to the trash? Its link stops working for everyone. To bring it back, open Your pages → Trash and click Restore. Every version comes back with it.

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Share a page with others

Only a page’s owner can change who has access. Anyone else who clicks Share sees how the page is shared with them, with Copy link and Make a copy.

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The Share dialog

People with access lists you (Owner), then each person you added, marked Notified by e-mail or Not notified. Change a person’s role with the menu beside them: Viewer, Editor, or Remove. General access decides who else can open the page: Every change in the dialog is saved as you make it. Adding people is the one step that waits for Share. What each role can do:

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Your pages

Every page you’ve made, and every page shared with you, is listed at quickscout.io/artifacts. You need to be signed in.

• Mine, Shared with me and Trash switch the list.
• Search titles finds a page by name.
• Each row shows the page’s title and description, and badges: SHARED on someone else’s page, who can see your own (like RESTRICTED), and its version.
• Click a row to open the page. In Trash, Restore brings a page back.
• Back to the map returns to Maps.

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Opening a page you don’t own

What you see depends on how the page is shared:

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Credits

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Troubleshooting