Lotus Instant Messaging/Web Conferencing (Sametime): Building Sametime Enabled Applications

Chapter 9. Sametime Links 249

Log the visitor into Sametime

To log the user into Sametime, we need to use the writeSTLinksApplet function,

which is documented in the Sametime Links 3.1 Toolkit Developer's Guide and

Reference. For our sample, customers are going to be logged in as anonymous

users, so we need to add the following into the HTML of our page:

<SCRIPT>

writeSTLinksApplet ("","",false);

</SCRIPT>

What this does is log the customer in as anonymous, where their names take the

form of Userxxx/Guest, where xxx is an number that increments by one for each

visitor. There are ways to set the name for the visitor, but we will not cover that

here; refer to the Sametime Links 3.1 Toolkit Developer's Guide and Reference

for more details.

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