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Subscribing and Unsubscribing to Conference Rooms

Conference room subscriptions enable the user to search and select among existing conferences and insert those as favorites, shown in the conference tab. To subscribe to a conference:

Unsubscribe

This removes a selected conference from the list of conferences.

To Create a News Channel

  1. In the Main window, select News from the Tools menu or click the News icon:
  2. News icon

    The News Channels window appears.

  3. Click the Manage button.
  4. The News Channels Management window appears.

  5. Click the news Channel Administration button.
  6. The News Channel Administration Window appears.

  7. Click on the new news Channel button.
  8. Type a name for the news channel in the News channel text box.
  9. Use the Default Access drop-down list to select the access options to be granted to all users.
  10. Manage: Select Manage if you want all users to be able to manage (have administrative control over) this news channel.

    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, not send them.

    None: Select None, if you want only a few users to be able to view this news channel.

  11. For user administration Administering Rooms and News Channels for more information.
  12. Click OK to return to the News Channel Administration Window.
  13. The new news channel appears in the select news channel text list.

See Also:

Administering Rooms and News Channels


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