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

Step 3. Click on the Groups icon in the top navigation bar and enter your registered Group name.

Step 4. After you are successful in entering your Group name you will be brought to a page similar to this one. The Group Settings pages is broken up into subgroups . A description of each can be found below:

General Group Settings

Group Name:
The name of the Group that you have licensed.

Max Number of Users in Group:
The number of concurrent users you have licensed.

Topic:
Enter a standard default topic for all rooms with your Group. The topic you enter here will appear each time a user logs into admin created or dynamic (user created) chat rooms. You will have an opportunity to change this later and you can set each individual room with their own topic. You can also make changes to the topic from the ParaChat room itself using the GUI admin console or text based admin commands. This field is not required.

Rooms in Group:
This is a list of Rooms belonging to this Group and can only be modified by adding and deleting rooms.

Admin user(s):
Enter the user name(s) of the Room Admin user(s). 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 Group.

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

Security Settings

Banned IPs:
You may manually add user IP addresses in this location that you wish to ban from all your chat rooms in this Group. 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 when you add the Class B and Class A ranges, you are preventing a greater number of potential users from accessing your ParaChat room.

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 page 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. There is no need to place a comma and a space between allowed URLs, just a comma.

 HINT:  It is important to note that users sometimes access domains without 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.

Enforce URLs:
ParaChat Server will enforce the URLs you provide for each room by either:

• allow - allows all user connections regardless of URL
• warn - warns users that a ParaChat room is running on a web page that is not allowed
• deny - warns users that a ParaChat room is running on a web page that is not allowed and does not allow a connection to the chat room

Users will be able to connect and enter a room with the URL enforcement set to both allow and warn. However, a user will not be able to enter a room if the URL enforcement is set to deny and the room is not placed on the correct URL.

Here is a list of error messages that a user will see if the URL of the room does not match the Allowed URL settings:

• allow
  no error message will be displayed
• warn
  "**URGENT SECURITY WARNING**
  The web page for this chat room does not match the registered URL. Please contact the web site owner to verify that this room has been properly registered.

  After the user receives this message they will stay in the room and will be able to chat.

• deny
  "**URGENT SECURITY WARNING**
  The web page for this chat room does not match the registered URL. Please contact the web site owner to verify that this room has been properly registered.

  After the user receives this message they will be kicked out of the room.

Room and Group admins will always be able to enter a room no matter what the URL enforcement is set to or what page the chat room resides on.

Profanity Filter:

• On: text in rooms within this Group will be filtered for profanity using the words in the profanity filter list
  
• Off: text in rooms within this Group will not be filtered for profanity

   HINT: ParaChat Server's profanity filter is pre-populated with a select listing of words.

Private Messaging

Allow Private Messaging :

• On: this is the default setting and users are allowed to send private messages.
  
• Off: this will prohibit users from sending private messages to one another.
  

• On: this is the default setting and users are allowed to send private messages from room to room.
  
• Off: this will prohibit users from sending private messages to one another from room to room.
  

In-room Text Message

Activate Text Ad Message :

• On: turns on the text ad message
  
• Off: turns off the text ad message
  

• This message will be displayed in the chat room at a set interval set under "Refreshing Text Message in Minutes". You can include a URL if you wish. HTML commands cannot be used.
  

• Set the refresh time from the pulldown menu.

Open/Close Group

Open or Close Entire Group:

• Open: this option allows all rooms to remain open
  
• Close: if you close your Group, all rooms will also be closed and users will not be able to enter any room within the Group.
  

Closed Group Message :

• The message displayed to a user trying to access a closed Group.

Require Valid User Name and Password

Allow Registered Users Only :

• On: this option will only allowed registered admin users into a Group.
  
• Off: this option allows all users into your Group.
  

Edit / Add / Delete Rooms

Edit a Room of this Group:

• Edit a particular room

Add a Room for this Group:

• Add a particular room to this Group

Delete a Room from this Group:

• Delete a particular room from your Group list

Here is an example of what your completed Group settings might look like:

Now it is time for your next step.

To see how to add a new room to your Group click here.