Road Warriors - disconnectd but not 'Offline'

[Unregistered]

HI, I am new to Jabber, the company I have joined uses PSI and a Linux based Jabber Server

Jabber is really useful, but I have noticed an annoying 'feature'....
When a Laptop user marks themselves as 'Away' or 'Not Available' and puts in a comment
for the meeting they are going to, all is OK until they unplug their laptop and leave the network

Then the status changes to 'Offline' - Is there any way to indicate the difference between
a) 'Have not connected at all yet today 'Offline' or 'My network is broken 'Offline'
and
b) 'in a meeting doing a powerpoint presentation - status 'Away' or 'Not Available'
i.e. I am busy, and I - choose to not be / cannot be - connected to the LAN

I cannot find a way to get Jabber to show a difference between these two states
Do any Jabber server 'Remember' the Away / Not available state when the client disconnects
rather than just displaying 'Offline' ?????

Thanks in advance for any assistance

(P.s. is the J pronounced as in Just or as a Y (European style)??)

[Jehan]

Hi,

this is interesting, but no there is only one "offline". When you are offline, you are just offline. This is only when you are online that you can set which is your availability state...

For the pronounciation, for my own this is a 'J' that I pronounce... I never really wonder if it could be 'Y' and in fact I don't see which european style you are speaking about. At least in France, we don't pronounce 'J' as 'Y', though in some other place probably if you say so. Anyway I am not a specialist in linguistic... :-)

[Kev]

Offline can be marked up with a status in the same way as other presence can - but that doesn't help you.

What does help you is that you can ask the server when they logged out, which might tell you what you need to know.

And it's Jabber, not Yabber ;)