You can easily add more participants to a 1-to-1 chat.
Prerequisites
- You are conducting a chat.
- The additional chat participants are contacts with valid IM
(Instant-messaging) addresses.
- The IM status of the additional chat participants is
Available.
Step by Step
- Click
Messages on the navigation bar.
- Locate the chat conversation to which you want to add more participants and
click on it.
- Click
on the top right of the chat and select Add
people to your chat from the drop-down menu.
A dialog window opens allowing you to search for additional chat
participants. You can add participants from your private contact list or
from the user directory.
- Enter the full or partial first name, last name or phone number of the
contact you are searching for into the search field.
- Press Enter to search for a contact.
The search results display the list of contacts that matches your search
(if any).
- Click on the desired contact in the search results list, then click
Next.
- Enter a name for the new chat in the Chat name field
and click Done.
A new chat conversation is created, and you can exchange messages with the additional
contacts
you have added.