Menu selections and accepted guest counts for a private dinner
Example: A host has twenty menu selections but only eighteen accepted guests. Two selections belong to canceled attendees.
Use menu choices for food preferences. Use the accepted roster for attendance quantity, then compare the two sources before giving purchase instructions.
This article is from Righthand. The story and result are illustrative.
Two records with different meanings
Menu selections identify requested meal choices.
An accepted guest count identifies how many people the organizer committed to the event.
The customer's situation
A host has twenty menu selections but only eighteen accepted guests. Two selections belong to canceled attendees.
The owner gives the Righthand the identified source material and relevant contacts. A Righthand is an assistant with email, text, phone, and Slack communication. Introduction.
The request to the Righthand
Compare the supplied accepted roster with meal selections.
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Send the meals for canceled attendees.
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Get approval before you contact the kitchen.
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Send the owner the result in this conversation.
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Get approval before you change an accepted commitment.
The assistant reads the sources for their different meanings. It compares the relevant facts and sends the difference to the owner.
If the request permits contact, the assistant sends the identified question to the supplied recipient. Send the reply to the person responsible for the decision.
An illustrative result
Two menu selections belong to canceled attendees. The accepted dinner count is eighteen.
The organizer gives approval for the meal quantity before the assistant contacts the kitchen.
Set access and authority for the actual task
Supplied source material can be sufficient for the first procedure. For direct account access, a connection with the applicable operation and Righthand access is necessary. Connections.
For an external action, identify the recipient and task. Ask uses an explicit instruction or approval. Connection tool permissions are another required control. Communications Policy.
Try the difference with one case
- Give the assistant one example of each source.
- Include a difference that affects the task.
- Compare the returned difference with both sources.
- Make sure that the test recipient receives a permitted message.
- Examine the work in Activity.
A satisfactory result must keep the difference and identify the next owner decision. It must not silently replace one source with the other.
When another approach is sufficient
A direct record or a human review can be sufficient when it gives the answer and no further conversation is necessary. A Righthand is an alternative when you want responsibility for the next information request and decision handoff.