Participant | Skype for Business Web SDK API Reference

A participant represents a contact in a conversation.

In large online meetings there may be hundreds of participants, so to reduce the network traffic the server sends as little information as possible. UI needs to choose a small subset of participants that are currently being displayed to the user and subscribe to only these participant models:

 visibleParticipants.forEach((participantView) => {
     var participant = participantView.getModel();

     // now subscribe to the participant
     bindProperty(participant.admit.enabled, buttonAdmit);
     bindProperty(participant.reject.enabled, buttonReject);
 });

A subscription to a participant model tells that model to keep itself up to date by sending extra requests to the server. Too many such subscriptions may add too much network traffic.

Hierarchy

Participant

Index

Properties

admit

admit: Command

Admits a remote participant into the online meeting. This is only enabled if the remote participant is waiting in the Lobby.

To fetch the value of the enabled property once, use its get method:

participant.admit.enabled.get().then((isEnabled) => {
    participant.admit();
});

This doesn't create any subscriptions, but if the actual value of the property changes, the only way to get it on time is to subscribe to its changed event.