OBi1000 User Guide
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Figure 32: Setting my status from the GUI
Note that whenever the phone is in use (i.e., off-hook), the phone
automatically sets the user status to “
On the
phone
”,
with
presence = DND
. It restores to the last user set presence and status when the phone returns to idle.
Expanded Buddy List
An Expanded Buddy List may include additional contacts that do not have presence information. For those contacts,
you will not see a presence icon in the respective entry in the buddy list display. This is just a matter of convenience
so that you can have all your contacts consolidated in one list, with or without presence information.
Buddy Groups
A Buddy List may be divided into groups such as “Friends”, “Co
-
workers”
and so on. A contact may belong to more
than one group or no group at all. By default,
all contacts in a Buddy List are in the “All” group. Most Buddy List
implementations
also allow the user to tag a contact as “Favorite” (or “Starred”). The phone treat
s this as the
“Favorite” Group
–
in addition, the user may define custom groups.
Buddy List Management
Basic Buddy List operations include:
Add a contact
Remove a contact
Add a group
Remove a group
Add contact to a group
Remove contact from a group
Tag/untag a contact as a favorite
Accept presence subscriptions (i.e. invites) from other users
The OBi1000 does not support any of these operations from the phone GUI. However, the user can perform these
operations by running a PC or web client (such as Gmail) and logging in with the same account credentials to
manipulate the buddy list. The phone can then pick up the changes to the buddy list in that account automatically.
The phone should be thought of as a client to a cloud buddy list, with the management of the buddy list performed
via the online service that hosts the buddy list.
Network Directories
A network directory refers to a directory service offered by a service provider or your company, which could be one
of the services offered by the soft switch or PABX the phone is registering with. All the contacts in a network
directory are stored on the server and are downloaded on demand when the Network Directory App is running. A
network directory may be grouped into a number of sub-directories. For example, in the case of a BroadSoft soft
switch, the network directory service comes with the following sub-directories by default:
Group
Group Common
