Blackbe;rry CLIENT FOR IBM LOTUS SAMETIME 2.5.40 - S Instruction Manual

BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Sametime 2.5.40
Version: 2.5.40
Release Notes

Published: 2010-08-23
SWD-1089866-0823125850-001

Contents
1 Fixed issues................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
2 Known issues................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
3Related resources........................................................................................................................................................................ 5
4Legal notice.................................................................................................................................................................................. 6

Fixed issues 1
The Delete menu option, using the delete key, was not disabled for public group contacts. When a user highlighted a public
group contact and pressed the Delete key, an inaccurate error message was displayed. (DT 785728)
Home screen indicators did not accurately reflect the user's availability. (DT 745727)
User alerts for sign in and sign out did not always work. (DT 745407)
Users with BlackBerry® Device Software 6.0 could not save a contact's display picture. (DT 744820)
When a user clicked on the placeholder display picture for a contact, the cancel function did not work as expected. (DT 695336)
When a user signed in to the instant messaging client from two different devices, the error message shown was incorrect. (DT
689320)
The Help menu item was not available on the Options screen. (DT 665015)
The Contacts application displayed the offline status indicator for a linked contact that was online, for users using BlackBerry
Device Software 6.0. (654897)
When users selected their own account from a public group list, the device would stop responding until the user clicked on
back or end. (DT 638435)
The profile settings for sound, vibration and LED were ignored when a user received an announcement. (DT 637283)
The icons for the Clear alert and Switch conversation options in the menu were incomplete. (DT 630210)
The Sign In As drop-down list included cut-off text. (DT 630141)
When a user added a new contact to a non-default folder, the contact remained in the pending list. (DT 628269)
Users with BlackBerry Device Software 6.0, users could link a contact in the Contacts application more than once, which
resulted in multiple instances of the instant message option showing in the menu. (DT 628165)
When adding a contact, users with BlackBerry Device Software 6.0 were not prompted to link the contact to with the Contacts
application. (DT 628136)
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Users wiith BlackBerry Device Software 6.0 had an Instant Messaging option in the menu of the Contacts application for
contacts that were not linked with any instant messaging clients. (DT 628113)
Users sometimes could not show the keyboard when opening a chat session from the message list. (DT 617164)
When a user's status changed to Away due to inactivity, sometimes the status did not automatically update when the user
started using the device again. (DT 568502)
When a user opened a password protected file, the Opening file(s). Please wait... window appeared on top of the password
prompt window. (DT 539066)
The contact status message did not display when highlighting a user with a long status message. (DT 501973)
When a user set a custom status message on the device, it appeared differently on the user's device and in other user's contact
lists. (DT 433317)
In Italian, no ellipsis appeared at the end of the Logging in message. (DT 417774)
Users could not swipe from an add request to the instant messaging message list. (DT 357574)
Linguistic errors appeared in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese. (DT 356751)
Users with BlackBerry Device Software 6.0 could not add a contact using the lookup feature. (DT 354676)
In French, some strings in the Help file were not translated. (DT 344410)
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Known issues 2
If a user adds multiple emoticons into a message without spaces in between, emoticons show up in the chat as plain text. (DT
611063)
When a user adds a public group, occasionally the user count shown beside the public group name is inaccurate. (DT 530618)
Workaround: Users can log out and log in again to display the correct user count.
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Related resources 3
Guide Information
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Feature
and Technical Overview
• BlackBerry® Enterprise Server features
• system architecture
• process flows
BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Installation and Configuration Guide
• upgrade considerations
• installation instructions
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Upgrade
Planning Guide
• system requirements
• environment-specific configurations
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Upgrade
Guide
• system requirements
• upgrade instructions
BlackBerry Enterprise ServerPlanning
Guide
• high-availability considerations
• high-availability configurations
BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Administration Guide
• system setup and management
• BlackBerry device configuration
BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Monitoring Guide
• monitoring information
• monitoring service instructions
BlackBerry Device Software Update
Guide
• BlackBerry® Device Software update methods
• update instructions
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Policy
Reference Guide
• descriptions of IT policy rules
• descriptions of application control policy rules
• configuration settings
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution Security
Technical Overview
• BlackBerry Enterprise Server security information
• security process flows
For more information about the new collaboration client features, see the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Feature and Technical
Overview.
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