Openfire Auto Push Contact list to users

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Hi all,

I have just recently installed Openfire and have found it to be very easy to use, and very powerful.

I have been able to find all the features I want in it so far, except for this one.

I want to be able to have every user, have a default list of contacts when they sign up.

Here is a bit of background:

I have deployed this inside a company I work for, and we have about 30-40 ppl. I want everone that is registered to be able to chat to everyone else with out needing to add the each of the contacts. In otherwords, if you login, I want all the current users of the system to be pushed out as a contact list.

Does anyone know if there is a plugin or this type of feature in Openfire?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards

-Hurgh-

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I think I have found what I am looking for under the “Groups” section in the User admin tab.

I will add more comments if it does what I want it to.

3

Yes,

I have discovered that you can push out the group as a contact list item, which is exactly what I wanted to do.

Next time, I guess I should fiddle a little bit more before I post

-Hurgh-

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I’m not seeing a User admin tab. Are you refering to the Users/Groups tab? Can you please provide additional information about how you were able to push the contact list?

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You can share any of the groups found un the Groups section of the Users/Groups tab. Groups shared in this way will autopopulate the members of the group to each members roster. You extend this autopopulte to people outside the group as well. So a group containing all chat users if shared will populate all users to all rosters.

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Thanks for the response. I suppose I don’t need to do anything additional to have this implemented? That would be nice.

So, if I’m a member of Group123, is it true that I won’t see other members of Group123 until they log in? Is there a setting in Spark that allows you to view off-line members of a group?

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Yes that is a Spark setting. All offline members are thrust into a group called Offline Group. Under the contacts menu of Spark you can uncheck this setting.

8

That’s the ticket! Thanks

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Hw about in Openfire? I’m using XIFF client for action script. What do i do to get all the users in the group even though they are not logged in?

if they are in group, it means that they don’t have to send subscribe request right?

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Hi All,

I want similer thing in different way…

I want to modify openfire functionality so that

  • When user x comes online, I want him to chat with person x2 ( depending on some condition, I mean I want to modify It for my spacial case, where I have developed new chat client application, which opens a chat window, when user logs in, and that should be connected to particular x2 user)

It is something like, when a user joins/opens chat window,by default I want him to chat with a person in his/her company (To which person, is decided run time by some conditions).

  • I want to disable add friends functionality, as I am going to implement my own code which will make friends by some conditions.

For this purpose, how can I modify/edit source code? and how can I implement it? Where can I get detailed explaination on this? In short My goal is to override existing functionalities of openfire to make it work in my scenario.

Thanks In Advance…