While DataMind Oda works, some decisions belong to you. When one comes up, Oda asks in the chat and pauses that step until the question is resolved. This page covers how those questions are built, what happens while a question waits, and how a plan review is resolved.
Oda asks only when your answer changes the result or the decision belongs to you. Related decisions arrive together, and before a long unattended run Oda asks every decision it can foresee in advance.
Questions offer choices and free text only. Access decisions do not use them: when a step needs more access than the chat's mode allows, Oda shows an approval card instead; see Approvals. The chat itself, including the message box where you answer, is covered in Chat with Oda.
Oda can put one or more questions to you at once, and every question stands alone:
When Oda has a suggestion, the option's label ends with (Recommended), kept in English even when the other labels are in another language. It is only a label: nothing else marks a recommended option.
The step that asked stays paused while the question is open. There is no timeout: the wait lasts until you answer, the question is cancelled, or it is aborted.
Your answers go back to Oda under the questions they belong to, and a question you leave empty sends back no choice. Each answered set of questions leaves a record in the chat; that record is covered in Answering Oda's questions.
the user cancelled ask_user_question. The run continues without an answer from that set.A request with no questions is refused before anything is shown.
In plan mode, Oda presents its plan in a Plan review card before it changes anything. For the card's own text and the full flow, see Plan mode. One rule settles the review: the option named as the approving one approves the plan, and every other option declines it.
One or more at a time. Oda gathers related decisions together, and each question keeps its own header and options.
Between 2 and 6. Every option carries a label and a one-line description, and a question that accepts several answers lets you choose more than one.
The step that asked pauses and waits. There is no timeout: the wait ends when you answer, or when the question is cancelled or aborted.
Oda is told the user cancelled ask_user_question and the run continues without an answer from that set.
The request is refused: Oda is told that no answerer accepted it, and it goes on without your answer. This is what happens in a run nobody is watching.
The question ended before you answered it, usually because the step was stopped. Oda is told it was aborted before an answer arrived, and it receives no answer.
The option named as the approving one. It approves the plan, and every other option declines it.
No. Waiting for your answer adds no tokens.