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Generate and improve Docs content with Now Assist for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM)

Generate content with Now Assist for SPM directly in your Docs using custom prompts. In addition, summarize existing sections, elaborate where needed, and refine drafts to help improve your productivity.

Before you begin

Role required: sn_align_core.ap_read_only, sn_align_core.pf_read, sn_apw_advanced.eap_read_only, sn_apw_advanced.pf_user, sn_align_core.apw_user, or sn_align_core.ap_read_only

About this task

You can interact with Now Assist directly in your Doc to create new content, add context, or improve existing sections. This helps you draft faster, refine ideas, and keep your work relevant without leaving the page.

The Generate and Improve Content feature is available in Strategic Planning Workspace, Portfolio Planning Workspace, and Project Workspace.

This task will be explained using Project Workspace as the example.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to Workspaces > Project Workspace and open the required project.

  2. From your Doc, open the page you want to work with and use Now Assist for any of your use cases.

ChoiceSteps
Work with content of the whole page
  1. From the page header, select Now Assist.
  2. In the text box, enter your prompt.

Some examples are:

  • For Marketing teams: Create a compelling product launch announcement highlighting the key benefits and emotional appeal for our target audience.
  • For Legal teams: Write a plain-language summary of the privacy policy in this doc, that customers can easily understand.
  • For product teams: Analyze the customer feedback comments in this Doc, group into top 5 themes, and suggest top 3 enhancements for highest impact. Note: Now Assist uses the context from your Doc page to generate a response.
Refine, elaborate, or improve the existing content within the page.
  1. Select the content blocks that you'd like to work on.
  2. Select the Now Assist icon (
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    ).</li>
  3. In the box, enter your prompt.

Some examples are:

  • If you have a list of stakeholders, you can ask Elaborate on the scope of these roles.
  • Rewrite this in a casual tone.
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    Sample of a Now Assist inline prompt for selected content on the page.</li>
Take assistance on a blank page.
  1. From the page header, select Now Assist.
  2. Enter a prompt with context for Now Assist to create your first draft.

Some examples are:

1.  **Generate 5 icebreaker questions for a virtual team-building session.**
2.  **Write a 3-paragraph blog post explaining why \[industry trend\] is changing how businesses operate.**
3.  **Generate an outline for the Instagram campaign tasks for a Hackathon initiative.**

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Sample of creating first draft for a page using Now Assist.</p></td></tr><tr><td id="d114524e274"><strong>Answer questions in the context of this Doc.</strong></td><td><p>Whether the content in the Doc is added manually or generated using Now Assist, you can ask questions to find anything in the page's context.For example, if you have a project charter document, you can try asking <strong>What is the total budget of this project and which part is the most expensive?</strong></p>

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Ask questions in the context of the document. Here, user asks questions on project budget, in the context of a Project Charter document.</p></td></tr></tbody>
Now Assist analyzes the text and generates an output in a separate pop-up.
  1. Based on the output generated, you can further refine the result.

  2. Copy the generated output by selecting the copy to clipboard icon (

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\) to use it for purposes such as sending an email, saving to notes, and others.
**Important:** Because the output is AI-generated, review it to ensure accuracy.

Parent Topic:Use Now Assist for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM)

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