Lotus Domino Designer 8.5 Help - Enabling a field for instant messaging

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Enabling a field for instant messaging
You can enable a Names, Authors, or Readers field so that the field displays the online status of IBM® Lotus® Sametime® users listed in the field. An IBM® Lotus® Notes® user viewing the document can click the name of an active user and initiate a chat. For an example of this, see the Memo form of the Notes mail template.

1. Create a Names field, an Authors field, or a Readers field that evaluates to an abbreviated hierarchical name. For example, Joe Allen/ACME/US.

2. On the Control tab of the Fields Properties box, check Show online status.

3. (Optional) Enter a Contact List Group label for the users listed in this field. You can enter a formula that evaluates to a text string, or simply enter a text string in quotes -- for example "Marketing Team."

This group will be built dynamically when the document is opened and display at the top of your contact list.

Note This feature is not available for Web applications.

Tips

You can use the same Contact List Group label for multiple fields on a document to build a group of all the users listed in the fields. For example, you might want all of the users listed in the Reviewer and Editor fields in a discussion application added to a single group named "Project Team."
Users can see the online status icons for names that you enable for online awareness if the User Preference "Show Instant Messaging Status" is enabled for their client. If this preference is disabled, a user will need to click a name to see if a user is available for chat.

See Also

Names fields

Adding instant messaging to an application

Enabling a column for instant messaging

Embedding an Instant Messaging Contact List

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