How to activate supply teleporters?

[bcpeterson7]

I don't know how to activate these supply teleporters (sender and receiver). Clicking on it says, "skill-required operation" and mousing over that says, "field research". So I take 2 dupes with that skill, in priorities I turn off all the other skills except research, and yet the task does not appear in their queue. Any help is much appreciated!

[ghkbrew]

The dupe does need to have "field research" unlocked, but the activation task itself may not be a pure research task. By disabling everything else you're probably preventing your dupes from picking up the task.

[SharraShimada]

Move the dupe with the ability to the teleporter, lock the door and let him do his thing. Otherwise everything else is more important and KLEI forgot to add a priority setting for this kind of stuff.

[NewWorldDan]

I believe that actual task type is 'Toggling'.  It requires the science skill, but priority is based on toggling.  

Always set your toggling priority to high for all dupes.  Saves a lot of problems.

[Gurgel]

11 hours ago, NewWorldDan said:

I believe that actual task type is 'Toggling'.  It requires the science skill, but priority is based on toggling.  

Always set your toggling priority to high for all dupes.  Saves a lot of problems.

Toggle, life-support and combat are the 3 I set to max for all dupes right at the start of a new game.

[bcpeterson7]

So, I used SharraShimada's idea of locking them in there with abilities enabled for toggling, science, and operating. One of my dupes could activate the teleporters and then 3 others with the needed requirements all stand around and do nothing. This is a little buggy on the dev side :/

UPDATE: One cycle later I transfer my good dupe to the asteroid to turn on the receiving end. This dupe does not go near the teleporters but magically after I switch between asteroids all of the teleporters are working.

I want to thank everyone for your advice. I will put it to good effect moving forward!