User can click online buddy but it will not open a Chat Window until the first Poller receive request

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.1 CE GA2, 6.1.20 EE GA2
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.30 EE GA3, 6.2.0 CE M3
• Component/s: Chat, Collaboration, Polls
• Labels: None
• Branch Version/s:
  6.1.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed

Chat Portlet has been deployed.

Foo is any user.
Bar is any user.
Foo and Bar are buddies && are both logged in.
Foo tries to open a new chat with Bar by clicking on his Name in the Chat Portlet buddy panel immediately after refreshing a page.
Foo is unable to open a chat window until Liferay has received at least one Poller request containing his buddy list.

This is not exactly a bug, however we can improve the user experience. If you go to that (in)famous site created by Mark Z. and refresh the page, it takes a few moments for you to be able to chat with your friends. This is because the front end needs to first to receive a response from the backend on who is actually available for chat.

The "fix" for this ticket will be improving the UX by adding a loading indicator on the page load if the Online Friends Panel is "selected" and adding a grey-ed out style to the list of online buddies until the initial response event has finished.

[Kevin Cho (Inactive)]

PASSED Manual Testing following the steps in the description

Fixed on
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.x CE GIT ID: 6ff4b3f107e9154d0f1df357bd2c7d4b6b4dd697.
Plugins 6.1.x CE GIT ID: 2a7910dd058d57fd3170e3eed6eaa09cfd41e2cd.
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.x EE GIT ID: c5d98ee693f5ee2c55f6f6b64d16ca495020e1c6.
Plugins 6.1.x EE GIT ID: 39746273a18c617ee348432d7f6e2b57d907f83f.
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 67220e46d23c29338731859affb4f9c384913eb1.
Plugins 6.2.x GIT ID: 19c03d453662773578c82c58ae39b35fcaa69ffd.