Setting General Alerts
Sametime Connect can notify you when new instant meeting invitations, chat messages, or announcements arrive. This feature is useful because you might not notice incoming instant messages if you have several active windows on your screen or if you are not looking at your computer.
Sametime Connect can also display messages that give you feedback when you add new names to your contact list. This feature can be useful if you want confirmation that you have correctly added a name or if you want to avoid adding duplicate names to your contact list.
Sametime Connect can notify you in three ways:
- Placing new messages in front of all other active windows on your computer screen
- Blinking (flashing) new message windows
- Playing a sound when new messages arrive
Follow these steps to set general alerts:
- Choose Options - Preferences.
- Select the Alerts tab.
- Determine how you want to be alerted when a new invitation or message arrives:
- Select or clear "Bring the message window to the front." If you select this option, any text that you are typing in another program might appear in the new chat window when you receive instant messages. This text is not sent unless you click Send or press Enter.
- Select or clear "Blink window."
- Select or clear "Play a sound." If you use Sametime Connect for the desktop, you can use the default sound or click Browse to choose another sound file. The sound file you select must be in the WAV format.
- Select "Display a message box" if you want to be alerted when you successfully add a person or a group to your contact list.
- Click OK.