Learn Skype Web SDK Day 27 : Joining a Conference via URI

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You can use Skype for Web API to join existing conferences, either ones you’ve set up somewhere else, or conferences set up by other people. All you need is the Conference URI, which looks like a SIP address, e.g. sip:[email protected];gruu;opaque=app:conf:focus:id:Q740UACR.

Instead of using the conversationsManager object to create a new conversation, you can use it instead to retrieve the conversation object which represents the conference, by calling getConversationByUri and passing in the conference URI:

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conversation = client.conversationsManager.getConversationByUri(conferenceURI);
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Once you have that, you don’t need to add any participants or anything (because you’re not creating a new conversation, just joining an existing one), you can just call:

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conversation.chatService.start();
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to join with IM, and/or:

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conversation.audioService.start();
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to join with Audio.

Of course, you may still want to subscribe to state changes, new historyService messages etc etc, as you would for a new conversation that was being created. See the example code for this post below for more information on doing that.

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