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Chapter 10
Collaboration (Pro only)
Collaboration allows Geneious pro users to share the products of their research and work with
each other. Based on an open Internet protocol called XMPP or Jabber, it allows you to maintain
a list of contacts, so that you see who is online when you sign on yourself. You can then share
documents with your online contacts, and browse and work with their documents in return.
The list of contacts is stored on the server, so you can easily access an account including its
contacts both at work and on your private computer.
Collaboration can work with any existing Jabber service, such as Google Talk, but we recommend using the Geneious default, talk.geneious.com.
You can even access several Jabber accounts at the same time, which is particularly convenient
if you wish to set up and run your own Jabber server (section 10.5.3).
This chapter shows you how to:
• Create a new collaboration account
• Search for, and add contacts to your account
• Share local folders with your contacts
• Search your contacts as you would an online database
• Set up and run your own Jabber server
10.1
Managing Your Accounts
When you start Geneious you will see the empty Collaboration service in the Services Panel
and the Collaboration menu at the top. You can open the Add New Account dialog by either
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