Disclaimer rules overview
Disclaimer rules determine in real-time if IBM Sametime users should receive a customizable disclaimer text at the beginning of their conversations. Disclaimers can be either plain text or HTML. Multi-line disclaimers are supported.
Disclaimers are usually used to remind employees that their chats are being logged or monitored for legal, compliance or company policy reasons.
If a disclaimer rule matches, the message will be linked to the matching disclaimer rule document in the imported chat log document.
Disclaimer rules apply to:
- 1:1 (one-on-one) chats
- N-way (group) chats
- Announcements
Disclaimer rules require that the option Log IBM Sametime chats is enabled.
Logging and sending disclaimers for IBM Sametime announcements requires IBM Sametime community servers version 8.5.x or higher.
Evaluation order
Updates
- Changes to disclaimer rule documents automatically take effect within one minute.
- Changes to disclaimer rule documents only affect the creation of new chat sessions.
Configuration examples
Example 1
- Configuration: No chat rules exist.
- Result: All chats will take place.
Example 2
- Configuration: 1 or more “Deny access” chat rules, no “Allow access” chat rules.
- Result: Chat participants matching any Deny access chat rule will be prohibited from chatting with each other. All other chats will take place.
Example 3
- Configuration: No “Deny access” chat rule, 1 or more “Allow access” chat rules.
- Result: Chat participants matching any Allow access chat rule will be allowed to chat with each other. All other chats will be prohibited.
Example 4
- Configuration: 1 or more “Deny access” chat rules, 1 or more “Allow access” chat rules.
- Result: Chat participants matching any Deny access chat rule will be prohibited from chatting with each other. Chat participants matching any Allow access chat rule will be allowed to chat with each other. All other chats will be prohibited.