Displaying Sametime contacts in the sidebar
A new feature of iNotes 8.5.x is the iNotes sidebar. The sidebar panels allow you to customize your iNotes environment to look more like your Notes client environment. You can change your preview pane settings, add your Day-At-AGlance appointments, view Help or view your Sametime Contacts. To do that, click on the Show option drop-down arrow on the far right side of the browser window. This gives you a menu of options, one of which is to open the Sidebar Panels and to make sure Sametime Contacts is one of the displayed panels.
When the application finishes loading, the Sidebar is opened, and the selected panels are displayed. Since you selected Sametime Contacts as one of your options, it now appears very much like a Sidebar gadget in the Notes 8.x client. Your Sametime contact list with your groups and contacts will be displayed.
You can also open the sidebar from the Sametime Log on button by selecting Show Sametime Contact List. This will display the Sametime contact list in the sidebar.
Clicking on the icons in the Sametime header bar shows various drop-down menus for you to use in setting display preferences, adding contacts, adding groups, and starting chats.