Placing a Call From the Conferencing Companion

The best way to place direct calls is by using the Conferencing Companion. You can use the Conferencing Companion to organize all of your contacts and conferences. To call a person in your Addresses list, double-click the entry for the person.

If the person you want to call has a fixed IP address, you can store the address in you list of contacts. Select New Contact from the Tools menu, or click on the New Contact button, as shown below.

The New Contact dialog will appear, as shown below. Fill in the name and IP address of your contact. You can then place a call to the contact by double-clicking the entry in your Addresses list.

The contact created in the previous example uses a fixed IP address. To create a contact that uses an ILS server to retrieve the IP address, drag the new contact from the Directory window into the Addresses page.

Only contacts placed in the Favorites folder will automatically check the ILS server and show whether or not the contact is online. If the contact is in another folder, you may still double-click on it to place a call, but it will not automatically show if the person is online.