Edit Stany standup questions

Change, add, reorder or delete the questions of a Stany standup for Slack, and choose open-ended, blocker or mood check questions.

SlackUpdated Oct 5, 20262 min read

Each Stany standup has its own list of questions, and admins edit them from the standup's form on the web dashboard. A new standup starts with four questions: a mood check, what you accomplished, what you're working on next, and a blocker question.

Default questions#

A new standup starts with four required questions:

Question	Type
`🚦 What's your current mood?`	Mood check
`⌛️ What did you accomplish since the last check-in?`	Open-ended
`🔮 What are you working on next?`	Open-ended
`🚫 Are there any issues blocking your progress?`	Blocker

Step 1: Open the questions editor#

Open the standup's form: Add standup, or Edit channel settings on an existing standup (see Set up a standup). Next to Questions, click Edit.

The bottom of the standup form, with the Edit button next to Questions highlighted

Step 2: Edit the questions#

In the Edit questions window, for each question:

type the text under Write your question,
pick a Question type: Open-ended, Blocker or Mood check,
tick or untick Make this question required.

Click Add question to add one. Drag a question by its handle to reorder it. To delete a question, click Delete question N next to it and confirm with Delete.

The question editor, with the Question type dropdown open

Limits#

A standup can have only one Blocker question and one Mood check question. Once used, the type shows "(already used)".
A standup needs at least one question, so you can't delete the last one.
Empty questions are removed when you save.
In Slack, Mood check and Blocker questions always need an answer, even if Make this question required is unticked. The setting applies to them only on the web dashboard.

Step 3: Save#

Click Submit in the Edit questions window, then Save (or Submit for a new standup) in the standup's form. The new questions apply from the next standup.

How question types show up#

Open-ended: a free-text answer.
Blocker: Not Blocked ✅ or Blocked 🚫, with a required description when blocked. Blockers are counted in the channel summary and tagged in the history.
Mood check: a scale from 😩 Very bad to 😃 Great. The channel summary shows the team's mood.