Can Adium Do Group AIM Chats with Specified Names?

jimbotron · Post by **jimbotron** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:26 pm

Please be gentle with me if I'm being an idiot.

In AIM, you can have the program go to a group chat room entitled "ABABAB", and if the chat exists, you're brought there, and, if not, it's created. Cool way for friends to get together...they just all agree to name the room the same thing each time.

I cannot seem to be able to get Adium to do this. I can't get it to create a new group chat with a given title, or to join one in progress.

Am I missing something, or is this just something AIM does but Adium doesn't?

MANY thanks for any help, this has been really making me crazy!

Kevlar · Post by **Kevlar** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:45 pm

Go to the file menu and the first two options are New Chat, and Join Group Chat. Join Group chat is what you want to use

. I know this is in the beta, and I believe it is also in .77 .

jimbotron · Post by **jimbotron** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:35 pm

Ok, thanks, but it ain't working. I can neither invite others to group chats nor be invited by them. Invitations not received on either end.

Also, even if if worked, I can't figure out how to invite new people to an existing group chat. Dragging names from buddy list to the window doesn't work.

Help!

MacMom · Post by **MacMom** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:02 pm

Try inviting yourself to ABABAB chat from the "Join Group Chat." I think that's what I did in 0.77, though it's supposed to work the way Kevlar said.

And I should add that inviting yourself to ABABAB chat does not work in 0.8 beta. There, you just "Join Group Chat" and type in the name of the chatroom, and that works for me.

jimbotron · Post by **jimbotron** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:05 pm

Ok, then, once I've got ABAB chat window open, how do I add people (i.e. invite) to the room? dragging from contact list doesn't work, and I do not see a menu option.

thanks for helping guys; I hope this is possible to do........