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5.4 Sharing Online Status
You can publish your online status to contacts who have softphone address, and you can set up Bria to view the
online status of other contacts. Typical online statuses are available, on the phone, busy, and so on.
Sharing Online Status
Watching Others’ Status
To watch a contact’s status, that contact must be tagged for presence:
• If you create a contact via the Contact Profile and you include a SIP address in the Softphone field, Bria
will automatically obtain status information for this address.
• If you create a contact via the Contact Profile and you include an XMPP address, you can click the Enable
XMPP Presence button to obtain status information for this address.
• If you created contacts by importing a contact list, you can specify during the import whether you want to
share presence information. See page 33.
• If you created an XMPP account in order to pull in your Gmail contacts, these contacts will already be set
up to share status information.
• If you enabled the Mac Address Book account in order to pullyour Mac contacts into Bria, then these
contacts will be set up for presence if you set up the mapping correctly. See page 32.
When you choose to share presence information, Bria sends the contact a notification request. The request asks
that you be able to see that person’s status. If the person allows this request, then the icon beside their name (in
your Contacts) becomes color coded to specify their status.
Your online status
Online status of other people
This person is either logged out
or is not publishing their online
status
This person has no icon
because you are not
subscribing to their online
status