Step 1. Log in to the Server Administration Pages by entering the registered Group Admin Name, Password and Group Name that you provided during the placement of your order and that can be found in your Order Confirmation email, and click the 'Sign In' button.
Step 2. You will arrive at the chat administration Main
Menu (see image below). To modify or create users for your Group, click
on the Group icon ![groupsicon[1]](../../groupsicon_1_.gif)
in the top navigation bar, or on the
"Edit My Group" link within the "My Group" section
of the page.
Step 3. 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:
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 within 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 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, you will not be able to log back into your web-based admin pages.
HINT:
Room Admin user names must 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.
Users in Group:
These are user names that have manually been added to your group.
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. If you banned an IP address using the GUI admin console you will find the banned IP address under the room settings.
HINT:
When an IP address appears on this list (i.e. 111.222.333.444), any user
who attempts to access your chat 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:
Our 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.webpage.com/chat.html,
you may also wish to include http://webpage.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.webpage.com,
for example, the server will permit the chat room to run on any web page
within that domain, and not just on a specific page within that domain.
Enforce URLs:
Your chat service will enforce the URLs you provide for each room by either:
allow - allows all user connections regardless of URL
warn - warns users that the chat room is running on a web page that is not allowed
deny - warns users that the chat 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
" **ALERT**
This room has not been configured to operate on this web page. To access this room, please visit: http://www.webpage.com/"
After the user receives this message they will stay in the room and will be able to chat.
deny
"This room has not been configured to operate on this web page. To access this room, please visit: http://www.webpage.com/chat.html Disconnected: connection closed."
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:
The chat server's profanity filter is pre-populated with a select listing
of words. If you find a word that needs to be added to the list contact
Support.
Allow Room Audio:
On: users will be able to submit sounds into the room.
Off: users will not be able to submit sounds into the room.
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.
Allow Remote Private Messaging :
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.
Activate Text Ad Message :
On: turns on the text ad message
Off: turns off the text ad message
Text 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.
Refreshing Text Message in Minutes :
Set the refresh time from the pulldown menu.
HINT:
This message is only sent when the room is active. If the room remains
inactive no text is sent to the room.
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.
This is a unique mode where the features of open chat are coupled with the features of moderated chat. When invoked, the chat interface has 2 chat text input fields. The top chat text input field is used for submissions to the main chat window. The bottom chat text input field is used for submissions to a moderator. Open moderation allows users to chat freely in the main chat room, as well as to submit questions to a moderator or speaker who, in turn, submit an answer to the submitted questions. Questions and answers display together in the main chat window as you find with moderated chat mode.
Edit a Room of this Group:
Edit a room
Add a Room for this Group:
Delete a Room from this Group:
Delete a room from your Group list
Edit a User of this Group:
Edit a particular user
Add a User for this Group:
Add a particular user to this Group
Delete a User from this Group:
Delete a particular user from your Group list
You can use the function for adding room and group admins and regular users if you do not wish to use the Integrated Member Database Application.
You can enable text ad panels for your room(s)
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Edit Integrated Member Database Application - Hosted Version Only
Allow your users to easily password-protect a user name of their choice with the Integrated Member Database Application. No programming knowledge or software installation is required to use the database application. Simply copy a few lines of HTML that we provide for you, and paste them into the HTML source code of any web page.
The integrated database is hosted solution so that your users can register their user names to work with your room(s) without any type of complex or time-consuming database integration. As the administrator of your chat group, you have complete access to the information supplied by your users using the standard web-based administration tool. The Integrated Member Database Application works instantly when your service is initiated - there is no activation, or fee, required to use this feature with your service.
If you are a ParaChat Server Standard Edition customer, please contact ParaChat Support for recommendations on what application might work best.
