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You can exchange text chats with one or more chat partners.
How do I send messages to someone who is not online?
You can send messages to chat partners who are not online or who have a status that is set to Do Not Disturb. Offline messages can be sent from your chat window, and your chat partners can view these messages upon login.

Work with chats
You can exchange text chats with one or more chat partners.
- How do I display chats from different partners in separate windows?
  You can change your settings so that chats from different people display in different windows, instead of displaying as tabs in the same window.
- How to customize chat window?
  You can customize chat window appearance by changing the bubble style as per your preference.
- How do I invite someone to a chat I'm already having?
  If you are in a text chat with one chat partner, you can quickly invite someone to join the chat.
- How can I show the time and date in text chats?
  You can show the time and date of each message you and your chat partner send to each other during a single chat or for all your chats.
- Working with the Server Community Manager
  The Server Community Manager allows you to create and maintain more than one set of server connection information and login ID and password information for a variety of Connections communities. Typically, the initial connection information is set up by your administrator.
- How can I send files to my chat partners?
  It is easy to send a file, groups of files, or a folder to a chat partner. You can also send a file to several chat partners simultaneously in a multi-person chat session, if you are using the HCL® Sametime® Connect client.
- How do I save chats and view my chat history?
  If this feature is available to you, you can automatically save all your text chats, making them available for viewing in your chat history. Your chat history includes chat transcripts, files, and web addresses (URLs or links) sent to and received from your chat partners for all automatically saved chats. Chats that you are prompted to save or chats that you manually save to your computer are not included.
- How do I send messages to someone who is not online?
  You can send messages to chat partners who are not online or who have a status that is set to Do Not Disturb. Offline messages can be sent from your chat window, and your chat partners can view these messages upon login.

How do I send messages to someone who is not online?

You can send messages to chat partners who are not online or who have a status that is set to Do Not Disturb. Offline messages can be sent from your chat window, and your chat partners can view these messages upon login.

About this task

Use offline messaging to send messages to your chat partners who are not available, view messages sent to you while you were unavailable, and to continue an existing chat when your chat partners go offline or set their status to Do Not Disturb.

Your administrator determines whether you have access to this feature.

Procedure

Right-click (Ctrl + click for Macintosh) an offline contact or a contact whose status is set to Do Not Disturb.
Click Send > Offline Chat Message.
Enter your message.
Click Send.

Results

When you log in or change a status from Do Not Disturb, you see messages sent to you while you were unavailable. If you are using a release earlier than 8.5.2 Interim Feature Release 1, you can view messages that are sent to you while offline or unavailable in the chat window. However, if you are using 8.5.2 Interim Feature Release 1 or later, you can view messages in the offline messages viewer.

Complete the following task to access the offline messages viewer.

Click > View > Offline Messages.

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