SameTime Out Of Office

Innovation Fund Project

© 2011 IBM Corporation11/14/2011

SameTime Out Of Office

Preeti J Mudaliar Mamatha J Venkataravanppa Sowmya Lakkappa


© 2011 IBM Corporation

Project team

Team members Sowmya Lakkappa Mamatha J Venkatravanappa Preeti Mudaliar

Mentor Matthew Johnson

Technical consultant Stephen Wissel

Technical support Bhavana R Gaikwad

Innovation Fund Program Manager John Wafer



Objective:To display the Out-of-office status of a Lotus Notes user on Lotus SameTime Connect.

Problem Statement:When an offline SameTime user is required to be contacted, a SameTime alert is set awaiting for response. If the recipient is out-of-office, the status is known to the requestor only through the automated OOO response for any emails sent to him. This restricts the choice of requestor to know the OOO status, wasting time awaiting for alert-response on SameTime.



Solution

The solution developed here is to pull the OOO status from Lotus Notes and display it on SameTime so that the requestor can be advertised of OOO status without being required to send an email.

Domino Server

Lotus NotesClient

ST Client

Web service Requestor

ST Plug-in

Web service Provider



How it works?



User Scenarios

OOO Icon on contact list

Business card with OOO details

New contact who is OOO

Context menu with option to get OOO details



Next steps

Hosting the prototype on TAP

Caching of out of office information locally

Customizing offline messages

Displaying out of office in Blue pages

SameTime Out Of Office

Documents

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