Passing content back and forth in a team (baton)

Under Settings you find the card Exchange folder. Click Choose folder… and pick a folder you share with your colleague — for example in OneDrive, Nextcloud or a Teams channel. The path then appears in the card. Hand over… and Share a read-only copy… then offer the folder under Save as as the default, and the start page announces new packages from the other side; Stop using removes the setting. Without an exchange folder, Save file… and By email… remain.

11Choose folder22Stop using

1. Choose folder
2. Stop using

Under Topics & Questions select the topic in the tree, click the icon with the three dots above the tree and open the submenu Baton. Hand over… hands the baton over, Share a read-only copy… writes a version for viewing while the baton stays with you, Take the baton back brings it back without a package, End the collaboration removes the badge, and History… shows when the topic went to whom and from whom it came back. For a playlist you find the same submenu in the menu of the Playlists page.

11Hand over22Read-only copy33Take back44End55History

1. Hand over
2. Read-only copy
3. Take back
4. End
5. History

At the top the dialog explains what the menu entry does: with Hand over… the baton comes along, with Share a read-only copy… it stays with you. Under To (name) enter who receives the package — the name is for display only. With the check mark Include notes your personal notes on the topic travel along; without it they stay behind. Under Save as you choose where the package goes: into the exchange folder (default when one is set), Save file… to a location of your choice, or By email… — then the file goes to your Downloads folder and your mail app opens a message with subject and text. Write package carries it out.

11What the entry does22To whom33Include notes44Where the package goes55Write package

1. What the entry does
2. To whom
3. Include notes
4. Where the package goes
5. Write package

After handing over, the topic in the tree carries the orange badge Baton with … since …: the baton is now with the other side. You can keep playing the topic in sessions; you should edit it again only once the baton is back. After a read-only copy no badge appears, since the baton stays with you. The notification at the bottom names the file path of the package.

11Baton with Bea Muster

1. Baton with Bea Muster

If you open a question of the topic while the baton is elsewhere, the editor shows the bar The baton is with … since … at the top. Editing remains possible — a soft lock: whatever you change anyway counts as your own version and is asked about at the next take-over.

11Soft lock

1. Soft lock

When the other side puts a package into the exchange folder, the start page announces it as a card New version of … with sender, time sent and round. LehrPuls checks at start-up and then every 30 seconds. Take over opens the dialog of the next step; for a topic you do not have yet, the card says Import. Hide hides the card until the next program start. During a running session, Take over is greyed out.

11Take over22Hide

1. Take over
2. Hide

The dialog names who sent the package, when it was sent and which round it carries, and counts what is new, changed, moved, removed or unchanged. Two lists appear only when needed: Played questions whose scoring changes — here you choose per question Take over (earlier results are computed with the new version), Keep as new question (the previous one remains for the results) or Skip — and Changed or created here without the baton with Incoming wins or Keep mine. One click on Take over updates everything in place: playlists, sessions and results stay intact, and the baton is then with you.

11What changes22Decide per question33Take over

1. What changes
2. Decide per question
3. Take over

After taking over, LehrPuls jumps to Topics & Questions; the topic now carries the badge Baton with me, and the changed question stands with its new title in the same place as before — no copy, same number. The package taken over sits in the exchange folder under erledigt. Now you edit, and when you are done you hand the baton back with Hand over…: that is the ping-pong.