Taskriz for Google Chat

Get Taskriz for Google Chat

Taskriz is in the Google Workspace Marketplace. Get it from the Google Workspace Marketplace

What it does

• Ask anyone. Type /taskriz ask to ask colleagues in Google Chat, or people outside it by their email or mobile number. Taskriz turns your questions into a request to answer, and the answers come back to you in Google Chat.
• Ask in one line. /taskriz ask @Sam if he will be at the 3pm meeting — Taskriz shows you the questions first, privately, with Send, Edit and Cancel.
• Answer in Google Chat. Requests from your business’s Agents arrive in your chat with Taskriz, answered right there: choices, dates and times, a few words.
• Send files and photos. When a request asks for a file or photo, tap Choose File… or Choose Photo…, then send it in your chat with Taskriz, from your device. Files in Google Drive can’t be used: upload them instead.
• Start a request. Type /taskriz, or open the Home tab of your chat with Taskriz, to start one of your Agents’ requests, such as “Book a Van”.

How your team gets Taskriz in Google Chat

Everyone who asks or answers in Google Chat needs Taskriz in their Google Chat, as an app they chat with. There are two ways to get it there, and they work together.

Your admin installs it for everyone

1. Your Google Workspace admin finds Taskriz in the Google Workspace Marketplace.
2. They choose Admin install, for everyone in your organisation or for some groups.
3. Taskriz then appears in each person’s Google Chat, with nothing for them to do.

Or each person adds it

1. In Google Chat (in Gmail, or chat.google.com), select New chat.
2. Type Taskriz and choose Taskriz, marked App.
3. Select Start chat. Taskriz says hello and tells you it’s ready.

If Taskriz can’t be found or added, your admin may have turned off Chat apps: in the Google Admin console, Apps → Google Workspace → Google Chat → Chat apps.

The first person sets up your business

• If their email has no Taskriz account, one is made for your business, named after your domain, with a first Agent. Taskriz sends them a link in the chat to set a password; it works once, for 24 hours.
• If their email already has a Taskriz account, the chat gives them a link: they sign in to Taskriz and tap Connect within an hour.
• After that, everyone else in your organisation who adds Taskriz is ready straight away.

Someone who hasn’t got Taskriz yet can’t be sent a request in Google Chat; Taskriz says so, so they can add it. People outside Google Chat need nothing: they’re asked by email or text and answer in their browser or the Taskriz app.

What Google Chat can’t show

Google Chat cards are simpler than Taskriz requests, so a request with something they can’t show, like a slider or a video, arrives as its title and an Open in Taskriz button — never half a form; one tap opens it in Taskriz to answer. When it’s answered, the message in Google Chat says so, with the answer.

Questions

Does everyone in our organisation need a Taskriz account?

No. Only the business has a Taskriz account. Everyone else asks, answers and starts requests in Google Chat as themselves.

How does Taskriz get into Google Chat?

Your Google Workspace admin installs it for everyone from the Google Workspace Marketplace, or each person adds it: New chat, search Taskriz, Start chat.

Can we ask people outside Google Chat?

Yes. Add their email or mobile number to /taskriz ask. They answer in their browser or the Taskriz app, and the answer comes back to you in Google Chat.