This is a common myth, that you can't re-add participants in a Skype 4 conference. Directions were just posted on how to do it, but I want to add that the reason there is such confusion is that the way of re-adding people in Skype 4 changed from Skype 3 due to the way in which conferences themselves changed. When you "drop" out of a Skype 4 conference, you really don't "leave" it; you simply lose the voice part of the conversation. You remain in the text part, along with everyone else. Re-adding someone, then, is not actually like a new call; it's more like a Reconnect. For the host, there's a Call button beside everyone in the conference who does not have a voice connection, and an End Call button beside everyone that does have a voice connection.
A couple other new features of Skype 4 conferences are the Call Group button and the Join button. Call Group shows up if the conference's voice part is no longer active, and it calls everyone in the group at once. Join shows up when you are not the host and you lost or dropped your voice connection, and it reconnects you to the conference without the host having to answer your call. That, of course, is very handy when someone has a rough Internet connection and needs to reconnect often without disrupting everyone. Finally, a note mostly to Hrvoje but also to anyone else who plays with the Skype API: The documented ways of building conferences using the Skype API do not make Skype 4 style conferences, unfortunately. This means that if you use the API to make a conference, participants will not have the Join or Call Group buttons or even a text window for the whole group at all. If anyone figures out how to make the API build a fully functional Skype 4 conference, I'm all ears. It may be possible, but it appears not to be documented. I would like to make Clisk do it someday, but I have more pressing things to accomplish. :) On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 08:28:09AM +0200, Hrvoje Kati?? wrote: That's the main problem of Skype 4.X. Dropped participants may not be readded, unless you recreate the whole conference. On 4.5.2010 2:58, Portia Scott wrote: >Hi, > >I am using Skype with Nvda. When someone calls, and you were in a conference >with them and the other person, how do you find the call button in the >participant list to add them back if they drop with Nvda? Using Skype 4.2. > >Tia, > >Portia. >Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the >latest version of skype go to >http://www.dlee.org/skype >To access tutorials and other goodies go to >http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > > >To contact the list owner send a message to >mailto:[email protected] > >to download a tool to automate the installation of skypewatch go to this link. >http://www.hrvojekatic.tk/ > >and for a searchable archives page go here. >http://bit.ly/64Y48 > >thanks and have a wonderful day. > > >_______________________________________________ >Skypeenglish mailing list >[email protected] >http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] to download a tool to automate the installation of skypewatch go to this link. http://www.hrvojekatic.tk/ and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com -- Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group [email protected] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. {Ralph Waldo Emerson} Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] to download a tool to automate the installation of skypewatch go to this link. http://www.hrvojekatic.tk/ and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
