Elisa, Thanks for responding. Sadly, I haven't found any solution to this.
Chat users want to be able to invite others into a chat conversation and Zimbra's webbased interface doesn't have that feature.
The other IM clients (ie. Pidgin, Adium, etc.,) can utilize the conferencing room feature in openfire, but it's too complicated to use. (i.e you need to know the chat room name, server name, etc. etc.) to be able to use it and normal, non-tech users would get confused, then not use it.
Microsoft's Communication Server (a corporate chat server) + their corporate messenger is much more intuitive. In a 1-1 chat conversation, you can just "invite a buddy" from your buddy list and you can easily have a 3 way chat.
Since I couldn't find anything that's open source like Microsoft's solution that's has the easy-to-use "inviting a buddy" feature, I wanted to go with a workaround solution of web based chat room. I found AJAX Chat (
https://blueimp.net/ajax/) which is super fast, but I couldn't get it to authenticate with Zimbra.
If there's a solution to inviting other buddies into a chat conversation that's as intuitive and easy as Microsoft's solution, I may skip over the chat room idea completely.
dalmate, if your zimlet includes that inviting-other-buddies-to-the-chat-conversation feature, would you be willing to share the zimlet by posting it to
Get or contribute Zimlets, UI themes, and languages in the Zimbra Gallery for other's to download?