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Text-Based Room Administration Commands
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1. Login to your chat room with your admin username and password for the admin for that
room.
Once you log in you will see the message
"You have room administration powers"
Note:
you will get this message after you are completely logged in and after
all other login messages. You can use room admin commands only when logged in as a room admin
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2. Login as "Hidden" Room Admin
Use the username and password issued to you when you ordered your room. If you would like to log in as a "Hidden" or "Lurking"
admin user, add 2 underscore characters to the beginning or your admin name.
Once you log in you will see the message
"You have room administration powers"
Note:
you will get this message after you are completely logged in and after
all other login messages. You can use room admin commands only when logged in as a room admin
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3. Change topic for your room
Use the following command typed into the usual type in text box at the bottom of the chat window.
/topic <your new topic text>
Example: to change topic to "Discussion on Foo's widgets" you would
use the command
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4. To expel those annoying users, use the /expel command.
3.1 To get a help message on the syntax type
3.2 To expel a user from the chat room for that session type
Example: to expel the user BadFooUser
This just expels
them at that time but they can log back in with the same or another
username so it is only effective in some cases.
3.3 To expel a user permanently from the IP address/ computer they use
type
Example: to ban BadFooUser's computer so he/she can never log in
using that computer IP address
This will not let them log back in with any username from the same computer/IP
address. They could of course log back in from another computer/IP
address (e.g dynamic IP address)
3.4 To expel all users from a particular ISP
Example: to ban all IP addresses from BadFooUser's ISP
This would ban all users logging in from any IP address in the entire class C of IP
addresses belonging to the user's ISP. This is more extreme and
could be used to prevent all users from a particular ISP from
logging in.
3.5 To expel
users even when they are not logged in.
Example: when you get some
complaints about offending users from some one else and the user is
not logged in when you enter the room, or logs off when you enter
the room) you can use.
Example: to ban an IP address 192.168.1.10
Please note the following:
- To un-ban someone, please use the Web based admin interface to edit room
profile information and remove the banned IP addresses.
- Do not ban your own IP address or you will no longer be able to log back in
as Room admin!
- When an IP
address is banned users logging in from that IP address get the
following message
"You are connecting from an IP
address that has been banned from usage of this room. ..."
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5. Open and Close Chat Room
For those of you
who would like to control when your chat room is used, e.g if you
want it used only for scheduled chats or when you as the Admin is
logged in, you can Open or Close your chat room for visitors. When
the room is Closed, visitors cannot enter your chat room. You as the
Admin can enter the room.
4.1 Close your chat room by
/room close <message>
where
<message> is the message you want your visitors to see when
they visit your room when it is closed.
Example: /room close Next chat will be at 8.00pm
E.S.T
Then a visitor trying to connect to your room during the time it is closed will see
the message
Next chat will be at 8.00pm E.S.T
4.2 Open your room by
/room open
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6. Log/ get transcript of your chat session.
Available for ParaChat Professional, Platinum or ParaChat server owners
The room admin
command allows you to turn logging on (start recording of chat
session) and logging off (stop recording chat session). This creates
a log file within the server directory which can be retrieved as a
HTML file via your browser.
To prevent unchecked logging, logging is turned off automatically when the room
admin logs off or gets disconnected from the chat room. To continue
logging, log back in as the room admin and reenter the /room log
<filename> command. Using the same filename appends to the
file.
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7. Refresh / Update room configuration file
Available for ParaChat Platinum or ParaChat server owners
The room reread
command should be executed manually as a room admin command whenever
you manually update the room profile file.
/room reread
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8. Room password
The room password command allows you to set a password for the entire room,
so users can pick any username but need to enter this password to
enter the room. Room admins do not need to enter their room password
(they would of course enter their own room admin account password to
enter the room)
1. To set a room password or to change it
/room password <password>
/room password secretword
(This changes the room password to 'secretword')
2. To remove a room password
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9. Room Moderation
By default all
rooms are unmoderated rooms and so anyone can speak at any time and
be heard/seen by others.
You can also put
the room in a moderated mode where only some designated speakers can
speak and others can only listen.
This is done by using the command:
/room moderate <No speak message>
<No speak message> is the message that users who cannot speak see when they
try to speak - it is an optional parameter.
Example:
The room is
moderated, you do not have speaking privileges,to submit a question
click on the submit question link below.
So if Bill tries to speak when he is not a designated speaker he will see the
message
"The room is moderated, you do not have speaking
privileges,to submit a question click on the submit question link
below."
When the room is
in moderated mode, the room administrator and any super users on the
chat server can always speak. In addition , you can add other
speakers to the room by the following command:
/room addspeakers <list of usernames
separated by spaces>
Example:
/room addspeakers Joe Linda Kaina Bob
You can choose to delete from the list of speakers by using the command:
/room delspeakers <list of usernames separated by spaces>
Example:
/room delspeakers Linda Bob
(Now Linda and Bob cannot speak.)
If you want to place the room back in the unmoderated mode you can use the command:
Note %priv and
%page will still work for speakers that are not allowed to speak
under a moderated room. You can further disable Private messages
altogether and so turn off %priv by using the client HTML parameter
to disable the PRIVATE check box on the applet.
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10. Paging room operator/administrator
In cases where
the Private messages have been turned off (e.g in a customer support
/ classroom situation) the user can still initiate a private
conversation to the Room administrator or someone designated by the
room administrator to be the 'Page Target'. The user can initiate
this request by using the command:
This will cause a request to be sent and if the 'Page Target' is logged in, a
private chat window is opened for the conversation.
If the Page Target is not logged in, the user gets a message saying so.
By default the Page Target is determined automatically by searching the list of
room admins to see if any one is logged in and can respond to the
page.
/room pagetarget [-save] [<username>
| auto]
-save :
(Optional parameter) Page target information can be saved to file if
the -save option is used. Else it will be set for only the session
[<username> | auto]
Enter either the
username that is designated as the Page Target or set it to 'auto'
so that it automatically looks for any room admin that is logged in
and sets it to be the Page Target.
Example:
/room pagetarget -save auto
Always uses any room admin logged in as the Page Target - i.e to respond to the
%page command from a user.
Example:
Sets Joe to
respond to pages, i.e be the Page Target for the current chat
session only, when everyone logs off the room, Joe will not be set
as Page Target and the Page Target will revert to the room
admin.
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