Managing Your Jabber Roster
MANAGING YOUR JABBER ROSTER
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Table of Contents
MANAGING YOUR JABBER ROSTER .................................................................................................. 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS.................................................................................................................................. 2
OVERVIEW.................................................................................................................................................. 3
MANAGING CONTACTS ............................................................................................................................... 3
Add A Contact By Searching ................................................................................................................. 3
Adding a Contact By Jabber ID ............................................................................................................ 6
Identifying Your Contact’s Status ......................................................................................................... 7
Deleting Contacts.................................................................................................................................. 8
MANAGING GROUPS ................................................................................................................................... 9
Creating a New Group .......................................................................................................................... 9
Moving Users to Groups ......................................................................................................................11
Deleting Groups ...................................................................................................................................12
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Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide a set of instructions on how to manage your
jabber roster. You will be able to add, delete, and move individual users and groups to
your Jabber roster.
Managing Contacts
There are two methods you can use to add contacts to your roster. You can add the user
by searching for them in the Jabber directory or if you know the users Jabber ID you can
add that ID directly to your list of contacts.
Add A Contact By Searching
To add a user by searching for them perform the following steps:
(These steps assume you are logged into a Jabber server)
1. Click on the “Search For Contacts” icon
2. Choose the “users.jabber.com” database from the drop-down list
Then Click Next
3. Enter in search criteria then click Next
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* If no search results are found you will be notified and taken back to step 2.
4. Select the Jabber ID and choose the “Add Contacts” button to add the contact
to your roster.
* Warning be careful not to choose the “Next” button this will clear your
search results and take you back to the beginning of your search.
The contact will now appear on your roster pane.
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Adding a Contact By Jabber ID
If you already know a user’s Jabber ID you can add them by performing the following
steps:
1. Click The “Add Contacts” icon
2. Enter the user’s Jabber ID in the following screen and click OK:
3. Once the user accepts your invitation you will receive a subscription request.
Accept the subscription request by clicking the Accept button.
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Identifying Your Contact’s Status
Your contacts will have several different states that you should be aware of. Their status
will show up in your roster pane.
1. Online status – When a user is online the Jabber icon will appear as a light bulb
that is all yellow. This can be seen in the image below.
2. Offline status – When a user is offline the Jabber icon appears grey with an x
through it. This can be seen in the image below.
3. Away status – An away status is an indicator that the user is idle. This can be seen
when a clock appears next to the Jabber icon. This can be seen in the image
below.
4. Do not disturb status – A do not disturb status indicates that your contact does not
want to receive messages at this time. This can be seen as a Jabber light bulb with
a do not sign next to it. This can be seen in the image below.
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Deleting Contacts
Deleting Jabber contacts can be achieved in two ways. Both ways require that you
navigate to the contact in your roster and select them.
1. Navigate to the contact in the roster that you want to remove. Next right click on
the contact. Then choose “Remove”.
*Additionally you could select the contact and hit the “Delete” button on your
keyboard.
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Managing Groups
Groups are used to arrange your contacts into logical associations. You can think of
groups as folders on a file system. You are initially given one group called Friends. All of
your contacts are placed in this group by default.
Creating a New Group
1. Right Click on the Friends Group and choose “New Group.”
2. Name the group in the text field of the New Roster Group Screen. Click OK
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The new group now appears in your roster
* You can nest groups by placing a “/” in the group name. For example the name of a
new group could be “Good Friends”. If you want the new group to appear under
“Cool People” group you would name the new group “Cool People/Good Friends”.
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Moving Users to Groups
You can easily add people to the new group using several different ways.
1. Drag and Drop the user to the group by clicking the left mouse button and
dragging the user to the new group.
The user “wgm9” user was moved to the “Cool People” group.
2. You can also associate a user to a group when initially adding the contact to your
roster. Select the group from the “Add contacts to this group” select list. Next
click the “Add contacts” button. That user will now appear in your roster under
the group that you choose.
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Deleting Groups
Deleting a Group can be achieved in the same the same way as deleting a contact.
1. Select the group and right click on the group name. Then select Remove.
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