in the top navigation bar to
enter your registered
Group name. Your hosted solution may offer you the opportunity to create a new chat room for your licensed Group. Please use the following directions to add a new room to your Group.
Step 1. Log into your web-based admin pages.
Step 2.
Click on the Groups icon in the top navigation bar to
enter your registered
Group name.
Step 3. Welcome to your Group settings page. This page will allow you to access all of your rooms from the pull down menu toward the bottom of the page. To edit any of your rooms, select the room from the pull down menu and click on the 'Edit' button.
Step 4. To edit a room select a room name from the pull down menu and click 'edit'.
Room Name:
The name of the Room belonging to the Group you have licensed.
Group Name:
The name of the Group that you have licensed.
Internal Title:
This is for internal use only and is not displayed in the room.
Topic:
Enter a standard default topic for this room. The topic you enter here will appear each time a user logs into created chat rooms or dynamic (user created) chat rooms, and will override any group setting. 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 chat room itself using the GUI Admin Console or admin commands. This field is not required.
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 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 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.
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 chat 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.
Moderators:
A list of moderators set for a moderated event
Speakers:
A list of speakers set for a moderated event
Moderation State:
Whether moderation is currently turned on or off for the room.
Show User Names During Event:
On: show all users in the user list during an event.
Off: hide users during an event and only display moderators, speakers and admin users.
New Questions Before Notification:
A set number of questions before a notification is sent to the moderation console
Timestamp All Messages:
On: enable timestamp for all messages in the transcripts.
Off: no timestamp will be recorded in the transcripts.
Log Private Chat:
On: log all private (IM) chat messages.
Off: do not log private (IM) messages.
Rotate Transcripts:
On: rotates transcripts when they have reached their size limit.
Off: does not rotate transcripts and will stop after it reaches the size limit.
Automatically Log Transcripts:
On: logs transcripts automatically, make sure to enable "Rotate Transcripts" or transcripts will stop when they have reached 4mb in size.
Off: does not log transcripts automatically.
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 pull down 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 Room:
Open: this option allows the room to remain open
Close: this option will close your room.
Closed Room Message :
The message displayed to a user trying to access a closed room.
Use Room Password:
On: a password will be required to enter the room.
Off: no password is required to enter the room.
Room Password:
Password to be used to enter room.
Password Failed Message:
Message received if a user tries to log into the room and does not have a valid password.
Require Valid User Name and Password
Allow Registered Users Only :
On: this option will only allowed registered admin users into a room.
Off: this option allows all users into your room.