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We are pleased to announce the availablity of a Sametime Advanced server here at BleedYellow. The server is located at: http://imadv.bleedyellow.com/. Sametime Advanced brings Persistent Group Chat Rooms, Broadcast Communities, and "Instant Share" to our community. For more information about what Sametime Advanced has to offer, view the About page, the Product page, or the Sametime InfoCenter.
Below, we will provide the documentation that you need to get started!
Persistent Chat Rooms
Not only are these available through your Sametime Connect Client (see below for plug-in installation notes), but you may use the chat rooms directly from a supported browser:
As seen above, you may directly enter the chat room, add it to or remove it from your rooms, or view FAQs directly from the browser. There is also a Connect Client interface for Chat Rooms:
Broadcast Communities
These allow for interaction with people who are subscribers of communities and choose to receive the updates in the Connect Client. Here is the interface from the Connect Client:
The four icons on the left above the search bar do the following:
- Broadcast Announcements: real-time alerts can be sent to channel subscribers
- Skill Tap: subscribers can find and interact with experts; expert responses can be saved and retrieved
- Broadcast Chat: invite members of a broadcast community to an online group conversation
- Instant Poll: subscribers can create and respond to real-time polls
The other three icons simply show your status, allow you to join communities, and see a timeline/FAQ.
But what good are these communities if you can't see the BleedYellow Communities? Good news there - a daily synchronization task is provided within Sametime Advanced to import all of the Communities!
Installing the Plug-in for the Sametime 8.0 Connect Client
As of today, there is only a plug-in for the Connect Client. To install this plug-in, perform the following procedure:
- In your Connect Client, go to Tools > Plug-ins > Install Plug-ins.
- Select the option to Search for new features to install and click Next.
- Select the option to "Add Remote Location".
- In the pop-up window, type in the Name (this can be anything, I used simply: Sametime Advanced) and the URL (this is: http://im.bleedyellow.com/updatesite/site.xml) and click OK.
- Click Finish in the Install window (and wait a few seconds).
- Place a check in the Sametime Advanced box and click Next.
- Select the option to accept the license agreement(s).
- Click Finish and then wait a while - you may continue to use your Client while the installation is going, though there will be no visible sign that anything is happening.
- You will receive a prompt once the installation has completed to restart your Connect Client.
- After restarting the client, you should see the two new Sidebar panels for Broadcast Communities and Chat Rooms.
- You will also probably receive a pop-up asking you which communities you would like to add. You will see one with your e-mail address - this is a testing community that only you can access to investigate the features without disturbing others
If you have any questions post them here!
Notes:
- You will leave the im.bleedyellow.com community in place. This will remain your community. Sametime Advanced is a separate server that talks to the Sametime Standard server.
- You will need to make the im.bleedyellow.com community the default community for the Connect Client integration to work.
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1 Keith H Brooks Permalink Chris,
One problem.
Your note:
You will need to make the im.bleedyellow.com community the default
community for the Connect Client integration to work.
Not going to happen. Whne you do this, if one can not connect to
the default it holds up the other sites from logging in.
Also if your network is down creates issues and errors and drives
users crazy.
Please change the parameter in stconfig under policies so this is
not the case.
Of course if this is required by ST advanced, I need to log this
issue with Lotus :-)
2 Chris Miller Permalink Another item, I already have Advanced plugins so I cant add those from your server
I am curious, who is doing all the licenses for the products?
Lotus?
3 Chris Whisonant Permalink keith - it's an ST advanced issue. We have never required im.bleedyellow.com to be the default community - that was one of the first things I changed when setting up the server... :)
4 Jimmy Bracco Permalink @Chris - Well, it ain't Microsoft thats fer sure...
If you're looking to praise someone you can thank Lotus911 :)
5 Chris Miller Permalink Another item, I already have Advanced plugins so I cant add those from your server
I am curious, who is doing all the licenses for the products?
Lotus?
6 Jimmy Bracco Permalink @Chris - Well, it ain't Microsoft thats fer sure...
If you're looking to praise someone you can thank Lotus911 :)
7 David Harris Permalink Anyone know how I can correct this, prior to installing the plugins?
Sametime Chat Rooms Feature (8.0.0.20080322-1214) requires plug-in
"com.ibm.rtc.web.utils".
8 Chris Whisonant Permalink @David Harris - Are you trying to install this in your Notes Client or the Standalone Sametime Connect Client?
It won't work in Notes yet...
9 David Harris Permalink @Chris, sorry for the delay in responding. I'm trying to install in the standalone connect client. My directory listing shows the relevant jar file as being present in shared\eclipse\plugins\,
although the sub-directory in shared\eclipse\features\ has the
version number as part of its name.
10 Larry Cannon Permalink Sorry, but for me the option to Install Plugins is greyed out. The only option I can choose is Migrate Features. Is there something I need to do or configure on my Connect client? It's Sametime Connect 8.0. Thanks.
11 Larry Cannon Permalink Sorry, but for me the option to Install Plugins is greyed out. The only option I can choose is Migrate Features. Is there something I need to do or configure on my Connect client? It's Sametime Connect 8.0. Thanks.