CounterPath eyeBeam 1.5 User Guide for Windows - Manual (Page 28)

CounterPath eyeBeam 1.5 for Windows
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Receiving a New Contact Request
Your eyeBeam receives a new contact request when you add a contact to your list (with “Show this contact’s
Availability” checked) or when another person adds you as a contact at their end.
The request is handled in one of two ways:
• 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. See “Privacy Rules” on
page 26.
• If you do not yet have a privacy rule set up for this person, this request appears to you as a New Contact
Request.
Respond to the request:
Changing Availability Permissions
• If you no longer want another person to be able to see your availability, change the Show My Availability
field for that person on the Privacy Rules. See page 26. The icon for that person in the Contacts tab changes
to Offline.
• If you no longer want to watch another person’s availability, uncheck the Show this contact’s Availability
field on the Contact Properties dialog box (see page 17).
Button Next Action Result
Allow The other person will be able to see your availability. The
other person will be added to your privacy rules with “Show
my Availability” set to Yes.
Allow and add This button appears only if the other person is
not already on your contact list.
When you click Allow and add, the Add
Contact dialog box appears. Complete the
dialog box and press OK. For more
information on the fields, see “Managing
Contacts” on page 18.
The other person will be able to see your availability. The
other person will be added to your Contacts list. The other
person will be added to your privacy rules with “Show my
Availability” set to No. (You can later change this rule; see
page 26.)
In the future, you will not receive this request from this
person, because you have set up a rule to allow or ban that
person from seeing your availability.
In addition, this same request will be sent to the other person,
so that you can see their availability.
Deny The other person will not be able to see your availability. The
other person will be added to your privacy rules with “Show
my Availability” set to No.
Close the window The other person will not be able to see your availability. The
other person will not be added to your privacy rules.