A Team project can have multiple members collaborating on a project. If the chat room for a Team project is enabled, you can exchange messages in the project's chat room from within the IDE. You can also engage in private chats with members of projects.
To chat with project members you must be logged in to the Team Server and logged in to the chat server. You can log in to Chat when you log in to the Team Server. If you do not log in to Chat when you log in, you can enable Chat after you login by clicking the Offline icon in the status bar. For more about enabling and disabling Chat, see Logging in to Chat.
You can use the Chat window for a project to exchange messages with other project members. Each Team project can have an associated chat room open to members of the project. You can also have private chats with individual project members from within the IDE.
To enter a chat room or initiate a private chat, perform the following steps.
The window displays a list of project chat rooms and project members that are online and available for chat.
You can use the drop-down list to filter the list of online members according to project.
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You can use the Insert Link button ( )
in the Chat window to quickly send a link to a file or issue as a message.
You can open the drop-down list for the button to choose from a list of open files or issues.
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