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rile
rile

Reputation: 26

Skype for business Web SDK - Presence / status 'Be right back'

I'm in the process of integrating the Skype for Business Web SDK in my webapplication.

My question is about status changes (presence). According to the samples on https://ucwa.skype.com/websdk I am listening to (my) status changes in the following way:

client.personsAndGroupsManager.mePerson.status.changed(function (status) {
    console.log("My new status: " + status);
    // etc...   
});

This works and I can update the UI according to the status change.

There is one exception --> status 'Be right back'. When the status is changed to 'Be right back' (BeRightBack) externally in a Skype client or in the UI of my application, I'm getting back status 'Away'.

When checking in the Dev Tools of Edge, I see the following:

POST
{"availability":"BeRightBack"}

and 

GET
{"availability":"BeRightBack","_links":{"self": {"href":"/ucwa/oauth/v1/applications.... etc }},"rel":"presence"}

Also when I sign in while being logged into Skype with the 'Be right back' status, the SDK returns status 'Away'.

When running the samples on https://ucwa.skype.com/websdk I get the same result. I change the status to 'Be right back' and the alert shows I'm 'Away'.

Am I missing something here? Is this expected behaviour?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1079

Answers (2)

tntstn
tntstn

Reputation: 81

By the way, guys, I realized this; mePerson object has two attribute. One of them is status and the other attribute is activity.

Let me explain difference between two of them. BeRightBack is not a status, it is an activity. The status of BeRightBack is Away and activity is be-right-back. Same as OffWork. If you set the status to OffWork you will see status = Away and activity = off-work . I did not find how I can set activity. If you find anything please let me know.

here is code;

var stasus = 'BeRightBack' ;     
        window.skypeWebApp.personsAndGroupsManager.mePerson.activity.changed(function (status) {
// alert('Activity Changed to: ' + status);
console.log('Activity Changed to: ' + window.skypeWebApp.personsAndGroupsManager.mePerson.activity);
});

Upvotes: 0

baywet
baywet

Reputation: 5312

Running into the same issue: if I log into skype for business (the desktop client) and set the user to be right back the value I get from the web sdk is away.
Investigating a little bit I noticed that method is present at sdk.js:44553 (with version 1.2.36) 

/**
* Transform status values from UCWA to values known to jCafe.
* @param {string} s - status value from UCWA
*/
function fixStatus(s) {
    return Person.Status[s] || {
        BeRightBack: Person.Status.Away,
        Idle: Person.Status.Away,
        IdleOnline: Person.Status.Away,
        IdleBusy: Person.Status.Away,
        Unknown: Person.Status.Offline
    }[s] || Person.Status.Offline;
}

Right above, you can see the declaration of the Status enum is missing the BRB value, I don't understand why though, especially since the SDK support the BRB value according to documentation

var Status;
(function (Status) {
    Status.Away = 'Away';
    Status.Busy = 'Busy';
    Status.DoNotDisturb = 'DoNotDisturb';
    Status.Offline = 'Offline';
    Status.Online = 'Online';
})(Status = Person.Status || (Person.Status = {}));

To me it looks like it's a status they added after creating the SDK and for retro-compatibility reasons they are doing strange things, hard to confirm without having access to the repository though.

Upvotes: 1

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