Contacts

Contacts Window

Once you have set up the server or servers you plan to administer and connect to a server (for information about connecting to a server, see the Connecting to a Local MassTransit Engine and the Connecting to a Remote MassTransit Engine pages), you can start administering that server. Before you can use MassTransit to transfer files, you must add contacts to the Contacts window and configure the communication method you plan to use when calling them. To receive calls, configure your available communication method.

Viewing Your Contacts

The Contacts window of the MassTransit Administrator not only shows a list of the registered contacts, but also provides information on the number of files received from, sent to, or waiting to send to each contact, as well as the date and status of your last connection with each contact.

To open it:

1. Open the Window main menu and click on the Contacts window.

OR

1. Click on the Contacts button from the Navigation Bar.

Contacts Window Options

MassTransit includes all the tools you need to maintain a list of Contacts. Store custom settings and privileges for each remote site in the Contact Window. As you add new contacts to your Contacts window, MassTransit automatically generates mailbox folders for each contact's incoming and outgoing files.

In the Contacts window, you can do the following:

1. Go to an entry – type the first few letters of that contact name;
2. Connect to a contact – highlight it and click on the Connect button;
3. Create a new contact – click on the Add Contact... button and enter the client information;
4. Create a new group of contacts – click on the Add Group... button and enter the group information;

   Note: This action is available in MassTransit HP Server only!

5. Convert an Ad hoc contact to a Web Client contact – highlight an Ad hoc contact and click on the Convert To Web button;

   Note: This action is available only in MassTransit HP Servers that have limited number of web client contact licenses!
   Ad hoc contacts do not take from your Web client contact licenses until you convert them to Web client contacts.

6. Edit a contact information – highlight a contact, click on the Edit... button, and edit the contact information;
7. Delete a contact – highlight it and click Delete... to delete it from the list;
8. Open the Files window – click on the Files... button;
9. Show the contact's mailbox in the Finder or Explorer – click on the Reveal Mailbox button;
10. Update the contact's file list – click on the Check Mailbox button;
11. Update the information displayed in the Contacts window – click Resume or close and reopen the Contacts window.

    Note: While a name in your Contacts window is highlighted, information such as files received is not updated!

12. Sorting – click one of the following column headings to sort by that heading: Name, Date, and Result. Click the column heading a second time to reverse the order.
13. See licenses information – the number of licenses allocated to your server are displayed on the Contacts window in the upper left.

    Note: MassTransit HP Servers can connect to their own Web client contacts and to an unlimited number of Ad hoc contacts and other HP Servers. MassTransit SFTP Servers can connect to their own Client contacts.