We have now added notifications via Jabber! What this means is as an alternative to email alerts, people on any Jabber supported system can get their messages from Techious via instant messaging. Those with Google Talk, your gmail address is your Jabber username!

To enable this, first enter your Jabber address onto the Edit Profile page of your profile, and then enable annoucements in Board Preferences under Notification method.




This should enable announcements, however some services (such as GTalk) only allow known "friends" to contact you, in this case you will need to add [email protected] as this is the jabber account that messages come from. In the case of Google Talk, "inviting" the person to be a friend should be enough



Google Apps users, we are currently trying to find out how to get this to work for you, other than that, enjoy!



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Interesting, I shall test this. I assume this is for PM notifications and such?

Yup, and topic notifications aswell if you have auto-subscribe or anything on

Erm, I can't actually find anything about Jabber notifications in my UCP And GTalk doesn't seem to add that address. So that means I'm a tad lost here.

I've added a couple of screenshots pointing out the areas, and a demonstration of the announcements, its just like the emails.

For your problem with adding, is this with the GTalk Labs client? If so can you run the old one and invite the user, that should be enough, if not then I need to go looking into it.

I don't have a Notification Method selection. Though I've just realised it probably only appears after I put a jabber address in :faceplam: (Yes it does)

And yes I am labs client, lol. I think it works if you use the GMail inbuilt one to do it, though. Or maybe not. Can you PM me to test?

Got your PM, it works! It would appear that even though it's not on my friends list it can contact me

Awesome!

And tbh I just hit jabber under your profile and IMed you there lol

I was wondering why I didn't get a PM or an email xP

This sounds liek a pretty cool idea, did I just read that it'll work through the inbuilt gmail client? IF so that would be awesome.
Btw, how's the dahsboard sidebar gadget going? If you could get the widgets of that and one of this that would be amamzing!
It would mean I'd actually turn on the sidebar....

It should work with the talk client in GMail and the standalone version, it simply sends a message to it.