Babble integration with ActionBar

Introduction

actionbar.babble is the Babble chat client’s integration package for the ActionBar, an extensible floating panel with links at the bottom of your Plone site.

For more information regarding Babble and ActionBar, please see their respective packages: babble.client, babble.server and actionbar.panel.

How to use

Just install actionbar.babble via the Plone control panel, or the portal_quickinstaller tool. actionbar.panel and babble.client will be installed automatically as well.

Make sure that the portal_chat tool for babble.client is configured correctly.

You should now automatically have the ActionBar at the bottom of your Plone site. At the bottom right, you will see a section called Online Users. Clicking on it will popup a dialog showing all the current online users you can chat with.

Troubleshooting:

1. The *Online Users* box, and the individual chatboxes appear slightly lower and behind the ActionBar panel. When you minimize a box, it disappears behind the panel.

Make sure that the babblefeeder.css file is loaded after the chat.css file in the portal_css resource registry in the Zope management interface. You can do this by hand, or simply re-run the actionbar.babble CSS import step in the portal_setup tool.