How to re-use data from a sub-task elsewhere in your experience
Dado's Answer Question and Select Option sub-tasks enable you to collect information from one person in an experience. It's very common to want to re-use that information elsewhere, for instance:
- Collect a bio from a new joiner and share it with their manager so they can send a personalized introduction to the team
- Confirm the address where an annivesary gift should be shipped, and then pass that info on to the People Ops team member responsible
- Enable an employee on parental leave to update their expected return date, then share that date with the relevant HRBP
This video offers a walkthrough of how you can collect data from someone going through an experience, and then share that data with another person in their experience – for instance, their manager, an HRBP or the IT team.
Whatever your specific use-case, setting this up requires the same steps:
- Add a custom Dado field to store the information: if a suitable field already exists, feel free to use that one – no need to create another!
- Set up the relevant Sub-task to send data to that field:
- Use a variable to insert that data into any Task/Message/Automation: