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Availability is presence status information, which can indicate that your contacts are on the phone, in a meeting, or have stepped away from their desk. Scan the icons beside a contact or the custom status message listed with a contact name to quickly determine status.
You can reduce communication delays by choosing the best communication methods, based on your contacts' availability. Even if contacts are offline, you can still place a call and leave a voice message, or send an instant message that they receive the next time they sign in.
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Available: Indicates that you are available to contact. |
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Away: Appears when you are inactive for 15 minutes or for the duration that you specify. This status indicates that you are away from your desk, in a meeting, or on the phone. You can also manually set this as your status. |
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Do Not Disturb: Indicates that you do not want to be contacted. |
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Offline: Indicates that you are offline and you will receive offline messages when you sign in again. |
You can manually change your status or it can change automatically if you are on the phone, in a meeting, or presenting in a meeting.
Cisco Jabber supports the following automated statuses:
Custom status messages can provide people with additional information about your availability. You can create up to nine custom status messages, three for each of the basic statuses: Available, Away, and Do not disturb.
You can clear all custom status messages.
By default, your status changes after 15 minutes of inactivity. You can use the away timer to change this value.