Using Buddy Status Lists | Using the Advanced Features of Your Phone |
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Using Buddy Status Lists
•Monitoring the status (presence) of contacts is an optional feature that your system administrator enables. Your system may not support it. For more information, contact your system administrator.
•If your phone is provisioned by a Polycom® Converged Management Application™ (CMA™) system, your phone handles presence and Buddy Status lists differently than what is described in this section. For information on monitoring the status of CMA contacts, see “Using Buddy Status Lists with a CMA System” on page 99.
A Buddy Status list is a list of users/devices whose status, or “presence,” you can monitor. Users update their presence setting (for example, “Be right back,” “Out to lunch,” or “Busy”), and you can view their status in real time from your phone’s Buddy Status screen, or from the idle screen (if your buddy has a Speed Dial Key on your phone). If you like, you can block others from monitoring your status.
Your phone can “watch” the status of up to eight other phones. These phones form your “Buddy Status list.” Your phone can be monitored by up to eight other phones.
Depending on the types of phones you monitor, and how they are configured, you may be able to monitor up to 48 buddies.
If your phone is configured to work with Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, the behavior of presence settings and Buddy Status lists is different. For more information, see “Integrating with Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005” on page 96, or contact your system administrator.
Updating Your Presence Settings
Your presence setting indicates your status (either online, busy, be right back, away, out to lunch, offline, or do not disturb). Update your presence setting so that other users can monitor your status from their phones.
When you select a presence setting (other than online), the setting scrolls under the time display on the status bar on your phone.
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