SETTING USER PREFERENCES

Customizing your online status messages
Note The features described in this topic are available only if your company has an IBM Lotus Sametime server, and only for Windows versions of IBM Lotus Notes.

IBM Workplace Managed Client users: If your company uses IBM Workplace Collaboration Services for instant messaging, features may differ from the IBM Lotus Sametime instant messaging features described here. For information on instant messaging with Workplace Collaboration Services, see the Instant Contacts section of IBM Workplace Managed Client Help.

You can customize the online status messages that appear when people point to your name in the Instant Messaging Contact List.

You can also edit the message for your current online status by clicking the instant messaging section of the status bar and then selecting "Edit current status message."

Follow these steps to create new default online status messages:

1. Choose File - Preferences - User Preferences.

2. Click Instant Messaging - Status.

3. Edit the default status messages by selecting messages from the drop-down menus or by entering new messages. You can store up to five different messages for each online status.

4. (Optional) Select or clear the "Edit message every time" check boxes. If you select these check boxes, you will be prompted to select or create a new online status message every time your online status changes.

5. Click OK.

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