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Short how-tos for everything the bot does — one per thing you might want to do. The same text is in the README.

Slots and operations

Asking for a slot, deciding who gets it, and running the evening.

Request a slot Everyone Ask for one of the slots on tonight’s board and wait for a Unit Leader to decide. Change, cancel or leave Everyone Move to a different slot, withdraw a request you have not had answered yet, or drop out of the operation. Approve or deny a request Unit Leader or Admin Decide who gets the slot, in the channel or in the browser — both do exactly the same thing. See just your own unit, and clear the easy ones Unit Leader or Admin A private list of the open requests you can actually decide, with one press for the ones nobody is competing over. Put somebody on a slot directly Unit Leader or Admin Book a member onto a slot without them asking and without an approval step. Take somebody off a slot Unit Leader or Admin Give a booked slot back, or take an undecided request out of the queue. Start an operation Admin Load a roster, set the start time, and put the board up. Set the start time and reminder Admin Move tonight’s start, and choose how long before it everybody is reminded. Post or re-post the ORBAT board Admin Put a fresh board up when the old message has scrolled away or been deleted. Announce the operation Admin Post an announcement embed pointing people at the board to sign up. Empty the approval queue Admin Cancel every pending request for the operation at once. Check what the bot is reading Admin Find out which operation is live and what the bot sees on its roster, when a slot is missing.

ORBATs and rosters

Where the slots themselves come from — built here, or in a sheet.

Build an ORBAT Admin Write the roster as indented text and let the bot turn it into squads and slots. Edit an ORBAT without unseating anybody Admin Change the roster while it is in use, and see who an edit would affect before it happens. Rename, copy or delete an ORBAT Admin Keep a library of rosters: give one a clearer name, copy it as the basis for the next one, or throw it away. Export an ORBAT to a Google Sheet Admin Write the roster into a spreadsheet, for people who want it there as well. Run the operation on an ORBAT Admin Use a roster held here instead of a spreadsheet — the default choice, and the simpler one. Run the operation on a Google Sheet Admin Use an ORBAT-style spreadsheet as the roster, the way it worked before ORBATs existed.

Events

Standalone sign-ups: trainings, movie nights, campaign sessions.

Create an event Unit Leader or Admin Post a training, a movie night or anything else with its own sign-up buttons and attendee list. Sign up for an event Everyone Answer on the buttons; the attendee list updates for everyone immediately. Repeat an event Unit Leader or Admin Make it a series: the next occurrence posts itself when this one finishes. Custom sign-up options Unit Leader or Admin Replace Accepted / Tentative / Declined with your own buttons. Ping roles on an event Unit Leader or Admin Notify one or more roles when the event goes up and again on the reminder. Edit, cancel or delete an event Organiser or Admin Change the details, call it off while keeping the record, or remove it for good.

Game roles

Tag roles members give themselves, so you can ping everyone who plays a game.

Pick your game roles Everyone Give yourself the tag for the games you play, so people can ping everyone who plays them. Add and remove game roles Admin Decide which games are on the list, and put the self-assign panel in a channel.

Tactical maps

Drawing the plan on the terrain, sharing it, and getting it into the mission.

Draw the plan Unit Leader or Admin Put unit symbols, movement lines, objectives and boxes on the terrain. Use layers Unit Leader or Admin Keep phase 1, phase 2 and the enemy picture apart, and show them one at a time. Put a real terrain behind the plan Admin Draw on the actual terrain instead of a blank sheet. Put the town names on the map Admin A terrain arrives with roads and contours and no labels. This is how it learns what its towns are called. Share, copy or post a map Unit Leader or Admin Give people a link that needs no login, copy a plan to start the next one, or announce it in a channel. Get the plan into Arma 3 Unit Leader or Admin Paste the plan into a running mission as markers, with no mod on either side. Bring markers back from Arma 3 Unit Leader or Admin Copy the markers a mission’s players drew onto the map, so a plan finished in game can be kept and briefed.

Campaign planner

Planning a three-to-five mission campaign and its weekly drops.

Set up the campaign planner Admin Choose who may plan, where the weekly drops are posted, and when they go out. Plan a campaign Admin, or Unit Leader with the unit role Set up a campaign of three to five missions, its AOs, and the missions in the order they will be played. Write a mission in the wizard Admin, or Unit Leader with the unit role Six steps from concept to after action, saved as you type, with each drop previewed exactly as it will post. Use and edit the objectives library Everyone with planner access; editing is Admin only The list of objectives and complications the wizard's picker draws from. Give a mission its ORBAT Admin, or Unit Leader with the unit role Link the roster a mission is signed up on: last mission's copied, one reused as it is, or a new blank one. Download the briefing packs Admin, or Unit Leader with the unit role The mission as a PDF or Word file, in three versions for three audiences. Plan on the campaign and AO maps Admin, or Unit Leader with the unit role Draw the AOs on a greyed-out campaign map, then plan each one on a detailed map of its own with a layer per phase, drawn into the leaders' pack. Link the OCAP recording and use its numbers Admin, or Unit Leader with the unit role Which OCAP recording is the mission, so its stats land in the campaign's Kill Tracker campaign and its numbers in the AAR. Approve and post the drops Admin, or Unit Leader with the unit role Each drop posts by itself at its time once somebody has approved it.

Reddit announcements

Watching a user or a subreddit and announcing new posts.

Watch a Reddit user or subreddit Admin Announce every new post in a channel, in your own words. Catch a post up, or skip a backlog Admin Post something the watch missed, or clear a queue you do not want announced. Follow someone whose profile hides their posts Admin Watch the subreddit instead, and keep only what that account wrote.

Kill Tracker

The names and groupings the public statistics are shown under.

Rename a mission Admin Show a mission under a clean name when it was not named cleanly in game. Manage campaigns Admin Group missions into a campaign, which the Kill Tracker shows as a page of its own. See a player’s missions and map them to Discord Admin See how many missions each player has played and which Discord member they are. Link a player’s names Admin Count a player who played under several names as one, and pick the name shown. Set a player’s unit Admin Correct the unit the Kill Tracker guessed for a player. Check the longest kills Admin Look through the farthest kills of all missions and strike the ones that cannot be true. Check the biggest multikills Admin Look through every player’s best multikill and strike the ones that cannot be true. Take over the old sheet and JSON files Admin Bring the mission names, campaigns, linked names and units over from the sheet and the dashboard’s JSON files.

Server and members

The log, the welcome, voice time, embeds and the housekeeping.

Read Launcher presets from a channel Admin Post an Arma 3 Launcher preset in a channel and the bot keeps it as that list. Roll back or upload a modlist Admin Put an earlier version back, or add a preset without posting it. Promote Cadets to Members after enough missions Admin Pick two roles and a number of missions; the bot tells the admins who is due, or promotes them itself. Log joins, leaves, kicks and bans Admin Announce who came and went in a channel your staff watches. Welcome new members Admin Greet somebody who joins, in a public channel, by DM, or both. Label your invite links Admin Say where each link was published, so a join names the source instead of a code. Track time in voice Admin Record how long members spend in voice, and show a leaderboard. Build a rich message Admin Compose the server-info and rules posts you would otherwise write by hand, and edit them in place afterwards. Delete messages in bulk Manage Messages Clear the last *N* messages in a channel, everything since a point in time, or both. Choose the channels and the timezone Admin Point the bot at the channels you actually use, and tell it what time you mean. Sync, restart and the one-time migration Admin The three commands that are about the bot rather than about an operation.