Step 2. You will arrive at the ParaChat Server Administration Main Menu (see image below).

Step 3. To create a new room, enter the group in which you would like the room added to. Click on the Groups icon in the top navigation bar.

Step 4. If you click on 'See all the groups on this server' you will be shown a list of groups on your server.

Click on the group you would like to edit.

Step 5. To create a new room, enter the room name in the 'Add a Room to Group' field and select 'Add'.

 HINT:  ParaChat room names must begin with the "#" symbol to be recognized by the server. By default, the "#" symbol is auto-filled in the Add a Room to Group field.

Step 6. You will see that your room has been created. To complete this creation process, you must now customize your new room settings. To customize your new room, click on the new roomname link. In the example below you would click on 'Edit #Test_Room.'

Step 7. You will arrive at the Room Parameters page for the ParaChat room you are creating (see image below).

There are 9 input fields on the Room Parameters page.  A description of each follows:

1. Room Name:
This is the name of the room

2. Title:
For internal use only, and is not required.  The title you place here will appear along with the ParaChat room name on the "View currently active rooms" list that is linked from the Main Menu page.  It will not appear in the ParaChat Room itself

3. Topic:
Enter the topic or greeting for the chat room. The topic you enter here will appear each time a user logs into the chat room. You will have an opportunity to change this later, or from the ParaChat room itself using the GUI Admin Console or admin commands. This field is not required and will overwrite your Group Topic setting.

3. Admin user(s):
Enter the user name(s) of the Room Admin user. You may enter multiple names here separated only by a comma.  There is no need to place a comma and a space between Admin user names, just a comma.  If you leave this field blank, only the Server Admin User will have admin powers in this room.

 HINT:  Room Admin user names should be password protected. If you list a user name(s) in this field, it is suggested that you create a User Profile for each user. If you do not create a User Profile for an Admin name, any person who logs into the chat room using that Admin name will have admin privileges in the room. Instructions for creating User Profiles.

4. Banned IPs:
You may manually add user IP addresses in this location that you wish to ban from the chat room. User IP addresses that are banned by the Admin user from the chat room (via the GUI Admin Console, or using admin user commands) will appear in this list. IP addresses should be separated by a comma only, and not a comma and a space. If you wish to remove an IP address that is on the list, simply highlight the IP address and delete it, remembering not to leave 2 commas separating any remaining IP addresses. You do not need to add data to this field during room creation.

 HINT: When an IP address appears on this list (i.e. 111.222.333.444), any user who attempts to access your ParaChat room from the IP address will be prevented from doing so. If a Class C IP address is banned (i.e. 111.222.333), any user whose IP address contains the Class C range will be prevented from entering. In extreme cases, you may also ban users from entire ISPs by adding the Class B range (i.e. 111.222) of an IP address, or even the Class A range (i.e. 111) of an IP address to your list of IP addresses. Be aware that you when you add the Class B and Class A ranges, you are preventing a great number of potential users from accessing your ParaChat room.

5. Allowed URLs:
ParaChat's unique URL enforcement system allows you to limit the way applet code for a particular room can be distributed onto other web pages on the Internet.  By indicating the EXACT URL(s) where you wish your room HTML applet code to run, you may limit people from taking the code from your HTML and running your chat room on their own web page without your permission.  List all URLs where you wish to run your applet code in this field.

 HINT:  It is important to note that users sometimes access domains with out the www suffix before your domain name.  Therefore, if your chat page is http://www.domain-name.com/chat.html, you may also wish to include http://domain-name.com/chat.html - without the www suffix -  as an allowed URL.  It is best to use the complete URL structure here, so be certain to include the http:// as well.  It is also important to note that if you designate an allowed URL as http://www.domain-name.com, for example, the server will permit the ParaChat room to run on any web page within that domain, and not just on a specific page within that domain.