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Mentions

Point Aevy at exactly the asset, document, or task you mean, by typing a single character.

What a mention is

Section titled “What a mention is”

A mention is a way to name a specific record inside a sentence. Type @, pick the thing you mean, and it turns into a labelled chip that points at that exact asset, document, or task. There is no guessing which “PPA” or which turbine you meant: the mention is the record itself.

The mention picker
Type @ and start typing. The picker groups matches by kind and narrows as you go.

What you can mention

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Ten kinds of record are mentionable. Type @ to see them all, or keep typing to filter to one:

  1. Assets, Systems, and Documents: the things you manage and the files behind them.
  2. Tasks, Findings, and Events: the work, the issues, and the dated activities.
  3. Contacts, Companies, and Users: the people and organizations involved.
  4. Suggestions: a specific proposal Aevy has made.

Where you can mention

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Mentions work anywhere you write in Aevy: in the Squirrel chat, in a comment on any record, and in the notes on a task, a finding, an event, or a contact. Learn the one gesture and it works across all of them.

What a mention does

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What the mention does depends on where you use it:

  1. In the Squirrel chat, a mention scopes your question to that record, so “summarize @Sunny Land PPA” tells Squirrel exactly which document to read.
  2. In a comment, a mention references the record for everyone reading. Mention a teammate to bring them in, or mention Squirrel to ask it to act on the record.
  3. In Squirrel’s replies, the mentions it returns are live links: click one to open the asset, document, or task.
Mentions and document links in a Squirrel reply
Squirrel answers with the same references you can mention, as links back to the records and documents.
One quirk to know

A mention you type is a live, clickable link only in Squirrel’s replies. Where you type it, in the composer, a comment, or a note, it stays as a label that names the record rather than a link you click through. So do not expect the mention in your own comment to be clickable; it is doing its job by naming the record precisely.