#9 Inivte others to conversation

[Rob Napier]

SameTime allows multi-party chats, but the plugin
doesn't support them. Worst of all, if someone tries to
add you to one, it just ignores the request all together
with no message to either to sender or recipient.

[Derek Muensterman]

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FYI, I purchased trillian so I could use the sametime plugin. I
wanted a client that I could extend through plug-ins.

They work great together to get most of the features I
need. There is one feature that keeps me from using it all the
time and/or recommending it to others. The missing feature is
the ability to have a group discussion. I am not looking to
use all the collaboration features (whiteboard, app sharing,
etc.) just the chat features. We use the group chat features
extensively where I work.

The implementation of that portion would make it a tool that I
could use all the time.

[cpignata]

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I'm on the same boat. Having the group chap capability is the
only feature that prevents me from using the stplugin full
time. Multi-party chats are used extensively, and as
mentioned in the feature request summary, stplugin just
ignores incoming group-chat requests so I don't even realize
I'm being invited to a group chat.

[Zach]

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Thanks for a great product! This is the one feature I'm
really missing now. I currently have to bring up the
sametime client at the same time as trillian to be able to
do group chats. That's annoying for 2 reasons: 1) i dont
get the auto-logging feature of trillian 2) any new
messages come through the sametime client instead of
trillian (unless i have a chat window open in trillian with
the person who's sending me a message)

[Breadman]

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I agree. In my company we have a lot of online meetings. Do
we know we this will be added?

[Wanstiller]

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Yes, this is a basic feature and a show-stopper for completely
moving to Trillian+STplugin. I'm really looking forward for this
capability.

[brabson]

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I agree - this is a show-stopper to using an otherwise great
plug-in.

[jamkey]

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I would also like to chime in on this RFE and state that I
am probably going to have to go back to the less stable
native Sametime application in order to get this
functionality back as teammates will occassionally need to
invite me to a chat for a group discussion on a technical issue.

[Thomas Mitchell]

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I had a ticket opened for this same thing. I have closed it
and will add my 2 cents here. This is the only thing that I
need more in this plugin. This plugin is great.

[Jeff Thompson]

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Hi, just wanted to provide everyone monitoring this RFE that
I've *finally* started work on the multi-user chat feature.
I have some vacation time over the x-mas holiday's, so I
hope to be able to use some of that time to get this
implemented.

As you may have guessed, I don't personally use multi-person
chat often... :) I understand, however, that this is heavily
used by some people and I will work towards a solution to
ease your pain and suffering... :)

Regards,

jthomps

[david harman]

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This plugin is excellent! Much better than the one that IBM
has started offering.

PLEASE enable multi-person chat sessions! This is an
extremely important feature. Thanks

[Brian Franklin]

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A suggestion of a first step. If there is some way that you
could at least let the user know someone tried to contact
you via the multi-user conversation functionality so that we
can then either jump on real sametime client or let the
person know that you cannot join via unicast would be great.

Not sure what is involved to just pop up a little window to
say "User X requested chat", but not giving the option to join..

Just a thought. I know I have missed a number of chats
because I never knew they even came in...

[Thomas Mitchell]

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I second that one.

[mssmall]

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Jeff, hope you had a good Holiday. Any progress made on this
feature request? Thanks!

[Wuss912]

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I too am intrested in this feature
it's the only reason that i am using the alphaworks client right
now
any eta on when this will be added?
i know your working on it...
thanks

[Scott Garfinkle]

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I really need this, too! My new group here at IBM loves to
do multi-person chat. I hate to have to use NotesBuddy.

[Jerome Cadet]

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Hello,

I first want to congratulate : Sametime pluggin IS the
reason for which I bought Trillian pro after several years
of Trillian basic version...

And now I see the chat feature seems to be under
development, but nothing new since february ?

Thanks for the update.
Jerome

[Zach]

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Jerome_cadet,

Yeah, well basically the main developer left this project
and switched to the alphaworks sametime plugin. It supports
multi-user chat. Check it out:

http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/stplugin4trillian

[Jerome Cadet]

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Ok so I suffered a little bit with IBM account creation (but
after all it's not worse than a MS account ;-) ) but finally
installed that other pluggin that works quite well.

But of course all my previous Sametime contact were not
recognised so I had to delete all and import again - but that
pluggin is able to import directly from the server account,
cool.

And of course the history of existing contact is not
recognised neither, I played a little bit and if you replace
history file (xml) name + content reference for all entries (ID of
the contact) with the new one inside the file, history tool finds
it again. But it's a pain and I won't do it for all...

Anyway thanks for the tip, I guess this project should be
closed here, no ?

[Zach]

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Well, i used cygwin and a little renaming script (it seems
that the IBM version prepends the server name to the history
files) to rename the history files, or you can do a little
bsh script to copy the files:

#!/bin/bash
for filename in *.log
do
cp "$filename" TTST01.verizon.com"$filename"
done

Perl rename script (i found this on some website):

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Usage: rename perlexpr [files]

($regexp = shift @ARGV) || die "Usage: rename perlexpr
[filenames]\n";

if (!@ARGV) {
@ARGV = <STDIN>;
chomp(@ARGV);
}

foreach $_ (@ARGV) {
$old_name = $_;
eval $regexp;
die $@ if $@;
rename($old_name, $_) unless $old_name eq $_;
}

exit(0);

I've used them both and they both work. This one might
should be closed, or have a pointer to the alphaworks
version anyway.