You will not be able to make or receive calls. If the screen on your phone looks like the screen pictured below, it means your phone is signed out.

If there is a power outage or network maintenance that affects your building.

When you change your University Computing Account password (every 180 days).

There are a few occasions when you will need to sign in again: It will stay signed in, even if you log out of your computer. Your phone will be signed in when it is initially set up for you. If you need to work from a different physical location for the day, your phone can go with you. Plug it into an Ethernet port, sign in, and use it to make and receive calls. do sign-in process here to instantiate the client objectĬ.get().Your legacy Polycom phone is tied to your University Computing Account and can still be used with Microsoft Teams. This means you can take your phone almost anywhere on campus. That way, your code will never end up with a null value, it will wait (asynchronously, nicely) until the property is ready, then carry on.Ī better way of doing the above would be: That’s why, for all properties, you should always register a changed listener for properties. If you read the property really soon after logging in, you may find that it’s null, because it’s not been filled in yet by the server. However, just getting the state by referencing the property isn’t the best, because there’s no guarantee that the property will be populated. Valid presence states (that I’ve found) are: The return object is a Status Property, with a value which represents the presence state.

You can access this from the Application object, once you’re signed in.įrom the mePerson object, the state object gives you your current presence state (but this isn’t the best way, see below). Skype for Web API makes it easy to get at your own information, with the mePerson object. Once you’ve logged in, you can start to access information about users, including yourself. Check out the full list of posts on the Skype Web SDK page. Each lesson comes with source code (in GitHub) and a working demo page so you can see what it does. This is one post in a series of more than 30, devoted to helping you get up to speed quickly with the new Skype Web SDK.

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