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Creating a New Room or News Channel

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Create a New Room and News Channel Window Overview

When creating rooms or news channels, the same basic window is displayed. When working with rooms, the title of this window is “Create a new room”. When working with news channels, the title is “Create a new news channel”.

Your administrator determines which users have access to creating conference rooms and news channels.

The “Create a new room” or “Create a news channel” window contains the following items:

To Create a Conference Room


Note

You need the Create Room privilege to be able to create a room. Contact your administrator for more information. If you do not have the Create Room privilege, you do not see the Create, Delete, or Manage buttons on the Conference Tab.


  1. In the Main Window, with the Conference tab selected, click the Manage Conference Room button (the gold shield) icon:
  2. Manage Conference Room icon

    The Conference Room Administration Window is displayed. Click the New Room button.

    The Create a New Room window is displayed.

  3. Type a name for the room in the “Room name” text box.
  4. Use the Default Access drop-down list to select the room access that will be granted to all users.
  5. Manage: Select Manage if you want all users to be able to manage (have administrative control over) this room.

    Write: Select Write if you want all users to be able to send messages as well as read them.

    Read: Select Read if you want all users to be able to read messages only, and not send them.

    None: Select None, if you want only a few users to be able to use this conference room.

  6. For user administration see Administering Rooms and News Channels for more information.
  7. Select “Show participants in chat window” checkbox to display the list of current users in the room.
  8. Click OK to return to the Conference Room Administration Window.
  9. Click Ok or Close to return to the Main Window.
  10. The new room appears in the Conference Room list.

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