Assign local users and capabilities

Assign users and groups from the local community permission to exchange real-time messages with an external community or clearinghouse community. Use this panel to control access to IBM® Sametime® Gateway and external messaging communities.

Give users from the local community permission to use instant messaging and presence with the external community. You must map your LDAP directory to the IBM WebSphere® Application Server repository before you assign users. The LDAP directory contains members of the local community. You can assign access to internal community users only. It's up to the administrator of an external community to give their users access to the local community through the Sametime Gateway Server.

Select capabilities

The capabilities of instant messaging and presence are automatically assigned to the route to the community and cannot be changed.
The "Rich text" capability allows internal and external users to exchange rich text messages, which contain a variety of fonts, colors, and text formatting. This capability is available for the SIP for Sametime Gateway translation protocol only.
Note: When federating two Sametime communities, also enable the "rich text" capability for the external Sametime Gateway.
The "Is typing" capability shows in real time when a chat partner is typing a message. This capability is available for the SIP for Sametime Gateway and SIP for Lync/OCS translation protocols only.
Note: When federating two Sametime communities, also enable the "Is typing" capability for the external Sametime Gateway.

Assign access

Select to allow access to the external community to all users, or select to allow access to the external community to individual users and groups in the local directory. When you select the All users option, the user interface hides the Search and assign users and groups field.

Search and assign groups and users

Use the Search by field to select one of the attributes by which you want to search. The default value is Group.

Use the Search for field to type a value that you want to search for, or use the wild card character (*). The default value is * (all). Whether the search is case-sensitive depends on the user registry that is being used. For example, you might type these values if searching by group:

To search for all groups, type *.
To search for groups that begin with the letters luc, type luc*.
To search for groups that end with the letters cas, type *cas.
To search for groups that begin with the letters lu and ending with the letter s, type lu*s.

The search field cannot be blank.

In the Maximum results field, type the maximum number of search results that you want to be displayed. Valid values are 1 to 100.

Click Search to find and display a list of one or more existing users that match your search criteria.

In the Search results table, use the Select column to select individual or multiple users or groups. Click the select all icon () to select all users listed. Only those visible on the table are selected if the list of users takes more than one page. If you have more than one page, you must select users from additional pages separately. You can then clear (deselect) only those users that you do not want to select.

Click the deselect all icon () to clear all check boxes on the visible page of the table only.

The Name column lists group names if groups are searched, or short names or user ID if surnames or given names are searched.

The Email column lists the email address of the user. Nothing appears in this column when you are searching for groups.

In the Selected names field, after you select names, click Add to move the selected groups or names to the Selected names table. The names in the Selected names table have access to the external community. The Selected names table may potentially be very large, so it displays names over several pages if necessary. Data are thus sorted by data subset only. To use the Remove selected name tool, select a name and click this button to remove users from accessing the external community through the Sametime Gateway Server.