# Working with personas ## Adding a new persona You can add a persona to your library by clicking `Add persona` to create a persona from scratch or `Import personas` to import from a library. Personas are fundamental to how Conducttr builds the information environment so there are a lot of fields, but you don't necessarily need to complete them all! At a minimum a persona must have a **name and unique handle**. The handle isn't seen by your players but it's important to you as the designer. ### Core attributes | Core attribute | Description | | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Name | The persona's name | | Handle |

This is a way to uniquely refer to a specific persona.

The handle is used in the following situations:

| | Faction | This is a convenient grouping of personas but also affects how the AI generates content | | Bio | This is for designers to know who the persona is supposed to represent | | Location | This is used to geolocate social media and website article posts (important for the InfoMap channel) | | Impersonation |

This allows human players with the matching position to impersonate this persona.

"All positions can edit" means website articles on this persona's website can be edited by any player with a position (i.e. not just a specific position)

| ### Other attributes #### Categorisation | Attribute | Description | | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Affiliation | This is a NATO categorisation of actors - it's used for some Pulse widgets | | A3E | A military categorisation used in some Pulse widgets | | Disposition | This is used in some Pulse widgets and reflects the persona's disposition (negative to supportive) towards the training audience | | Tags | Searchable field to make it easier to find personas with similar tags. This can be very helpful during design but also running | | Established | Convenient means for filtering but not used by the simulation | #### AI related | Attribute | Description | | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Empathy | Empathy shapes the tone of voice for personas with the range -3 to +3 indicating confrontational style to conciliatory style respectively | | Beliefs | Belief tags connect the persona to beliefs in the belief library | #### Social media related | Attribute | Description | | ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Influence | Influence determines how much engagement a persona gets on their social media posts | | Content & Social Graph | Check the checkbox if you want to hide this persona from all social media | ## Working at an Organisation Personas can work at organisations. This will allow posts from the organisation to show the author as the organisation or the employee.
## Making the persona a team member This allows a player to log in and inhabit the persona without impersonation. The player will need to use the same email address as the persona.