Ask: real names for you, Confirm for every change, and your own clock
Ask restores names, e-mails and addresses for you while the AI engine only ever sees stand-ins; every change waits for Confirm; dates are on your own time zone and in your date format; records named by code are found; self-service changes land on the ESS screen.
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- Names, e-mails and addresses are replaced by stand-ins before anything is sent to the AI engine (see What ASK and the AI engines never see). The stand-ins are now put back in what Ask does and shows you — the change it lists, the Confirm card and the reply — and never in anything sent back to the engine.
- The mapping is kept for the conversation, sealed to your company and to you, so a later question can still refer to the same person.
- A stand-in that nothing maps to is refused rather than written into a record.
- Dates and ordinary words are never taken for names.
Confirm for every change
Anything that would change data now waits for Confirm, including a bill-run preview, an estimate, a landed-cost preview, a support ticket and a dashboard pin. Only requests known to write nothing go ahead without it. Ask may still offer to raise a ticket while answering a question.
Your clock and your date format
- Ask works on your time zone — your preference, else the company’s, else your browser’s — so “today” is your today.
- Times given without a zone are taken in your zone; dates in replies are in your date format.
Finding records, and where Ask opens
- A record named by its code or document number (a premise PRM-…, a work order WO-…) is found.
- Somebody whose roles open Employee Self Service can ask for their leave, pay and time and decide team approvals, and a self-service change opens on its ESS screen. Nothing else is widened: the module, the grants and Confirm still apply.
- Simple read-only lookups are given a few more rounds to open the screen they need.
Since 19 October the server itself refuses a change made without Confirm, and people can be named by name or e-mail. See Ask: nothing changes without Confirm, dates your way, people by name, and Assigned to me.