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pressing the
Clear
soft key. The user selected status value is stored in the parameter
SPn Service
::
MyStatus
. The
user may add new status values or remove old ones (using the
New
and
Remove
soft key respectively); all the status
values are available to all SP services and are stored as a comma separated list of phrases in the parameter
PhoneSettings
::
MyStatusHistory
.
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 and Groups
If the XMPP server is from BroadSoft, the OBi1000 supports expanded buddy list and groups.
An expanded Buddy List may include basic 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.
A Buddy List may be divided into groups such as “Friends”, “Co-workers”, etc. 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 implementation
also allows the user to tag a contact as “Favorite” (sometimes called “Starred”). The phone treated this as the
“Favorite” Group. Additional groups may be defined by the user.
Buddy List Management
Buddy list management refers to operations like
-
adding a contact
-
removing a contact
-
adding a group
-
removing a group
-
adding contacts to a group
-
removing contacts from a group
-
tagging or un-tagging a contact as a Favorite
-
accepting presence subscriptions (i.e. invites) from other users
The OBi1000 does not support any of these management operations on the buddy list from the phone GUI. Users are
expected to perform such operations using compatible client software that runs on a PC, tablet, smart-phone, etc. For
example Google Voice users can use a Gmail client to change the buddy list. BroadSoft users can use the
BroadTouch
