Actiontec electronic 1.5 Telephone - Manual (Page 26)

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4.4 Availability
Availability refers to the ability to see whether a person is available or not: online, on phone, busy, and so on.
Availability information is displayed in the Calls & Contacts drawer.
You can publish your availability to contacts who have SIP addresses, and you can set up eyeBeam to view the
availability of other contacts.
Sharing Availability
Watching Others’ Availability
To be able to see the availability of another person, either add that person to the Contacts list with the Show this
contact’s Availability field checked, or modify the existing contact informaton so that this field is checked. For
more information, see page 18.
As soon as the person is set up in this way in your Contacts list, eyeBeam sends them a notification request. The
request asks that you be able to see that person’s availability. If the person allows this request, then the icon
beside their name (in your Contacts lists) becomes color coded (see below for details), so you can determine
their availability.
Allowing Other Parties to See your Availability (Publishing your Availability)
Continuing from above, when the other person allows the notification request, your name is added to their
Contacts list. As soon as you are added to their list, a request is sent back to you requesting that that they be able
to see you.
If you do not yet have a privacy rule set up for this peron, this request appears to you as a New Contact Request.
(If you set up a privacy rule before this person has a chance to contact you, then you will never see this request.
eyeBeam will automatically reply to the request according to the rule.)
Your availability
Availability of other people