Sametime 11 – Enabling person photo in the client

If you want to enable photos in the Sametime client, there is documentation available, unfortunately it all refers to versions 9 or 10, where it was told to use the Sametime Console. Now in version 11 the Sametime Console does not exist, so how do you do that ? The Sametime Console wrote the settings selected in a series of XML configuration files, so the only way now to work is manually edit those files, see for example my previous post on enabling file transfer.
With the help (again) of the excellent Trevor Tallackson from HCL I was able to set up the pictures in Sametime, here is how to do it

First add the picture URL in the person document in the Domino directory

Now edit the file UserInfoConfig.xml located in the Domino program directory and add those lines
<Detail FieldName="PhotoURL" Id="PhotoURL" Type="text/plain"/>
<Detail FieldName="PhotoURL" Id="ImagePath" Type="text/plain" />
in the section <Details>
Add these two Detail Ids to the <ParamsSets> section
<Set SetId="0" params="MailAddress,Name,Title,Location,Telephone,PhotoURL,ImagePath,Company"/>
<Set SetId="1" params="MailAddress,Name,Title,Location,Telephone,PhotoURL,ImagePath,Company"/>
These are needed because in the UserInfoConfig.xml file on the Sametime Community server, the Standalone Connect client and Embedded require ImagePath string detail, Mobile and Web clients require the PhotoURL detail

Note: do not copy/paste from above. I had reports it does not work well. Just add PhotoURL and ImagePath to the params= line.

Now check the UserInfo servlet according to the instructions here https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKTXQ_10.0.0/admin/trouble/st_adm_buscard_troubleshoot_r.html
You should see something like this

For me it was not working initially, then Trevor wrote me this:
Looks like the stconfig.nsf “UserInfo” document is getting in the way here. Add the following to your UserInfoConfig.xml file between <UserInformation> and <Resources>
<ReadStConfigUpdates value= “false”/>
This tells the UserInfoServlet to only use the UserInfoConfig.xml configuration.

Restart the server and now you have pictures in Sametime client

Sametime 11 – What to do if file transfer is not working – Update

I stumbled into a problem at one of my customers. In the client, the icon for file transfer was greyed out and the one for sending a screenshot was missing,

I opened a case with HCL and the suggestion was to enable the setting im.3000 in the file policies.user.xml.
to do so you have to edit the line
<p:policy-attribute id=“im.3000” type=“boolean” current-value=“1” default-value=“1" master-attribute-link=“null” possibl .....
By default the current-value is 0, you have to set it to 1
I did that but the file transfer was not available the same.

After checking the file I found that there were 2 occurrences of im.3000, one for the im.default.policy and the other for the im.anonymous.policy, the problem is that this setting is written only in the section “imserver.policygroup.chat”. I copied the lines from that section and added them in the “imserver.policygroup.filetransfer” section.
<p:policy-attribute id="im.3000" type="boolean" current-value="1" default-value="1" master-attribute-link="null" possible-value-labels="null" possible-values="null" label="im.3000.label" description="im.3000.desc" visible="true"/>

Restarted the server and now in the client I had this

Update

I checked with HCL, file transfer and screen capture are not allowed with Sametime limited use license. You should use the content of this blog post only to fix issues if you have a standard license and file transfer is not working. If you enable file transfer, you should upgrade your license to be compliant.

See here for information about what is allowed and what isn’t with the limited use license. https://hclpnpsupport.hcltech.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0068613

Sametime 11. How to allow access to mobile clients – Update from HCL

I installed a Sametime 11 server for a customer, everything was working, but the mobile clients could not access the server. Upon trying to login they saw this on their phones

I was not the only one with this problem, other 2 persons I know had the same issue with their installation.

I talked to my friend Andreas Ponte, from Belsoft who told me that they could use mobile clients, so we crosschecked our configurations.
and it turned out that my customer sametime.ini had this line
ST_BRANDING_INFO=entry while his had ST_BRANDING_INFO=standard
As soon as I changed the sametime.ini and restarted, the access from mobile devices was working.

I had installed Sametime withe the option “limited” because this is the license my customer has

So, the solution is simple but I have asked HCL to clarify. As far as I know since V10 the limited license allows the use of mobile clients, and I do not think this has changed in V11

UPDATE

I received a mail from HCL stating this:
For now, the workaround is to add the stanza to the stproxyconfig.xml and NOT change the ST_BRANDING_INFO in sametime.ini, since that setting controls other features/UI of the clients if you are only licensed for ENTRY.

<OverrideCSLUMobileRestriction>true</OverrideCSLUMobileRestriction>

inside the <configuration> element of stproxyconfig.xml.

I will be speaking at Engage 2020

I will be speaking with my friend from HCL, Giancarlo Giannini. Our session is: What is HCL Digital Experience and will be on Tuesday March 4th at 11.30

We will explain what is a digital-first strategy and why HCL Digital Experience can help you in achieving this.