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Creating a New Room or News Channel

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Create a New Conference and News Channel Window Overview

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

Your administrator or technical support center determines which users have access to creating conference rooms and news channels.

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

To Create a Conference Room


Note

You need the Create Conference privilege to be able to create a conference. Contact your administrator or technical support center for more information. If you do not have the Create Conference privilege, the Add Conference, Manage Conference, and Remove Conference options are disabled in the File menu of the main Instant Messenger window.


  1. In the Main Window, with the Conference tab selected, select the Manage Conference option from the File menu.
  2. The Conference Room Administration Window is displayed.

  3. Click the New Conference button.
  4. The Create a New Conference window is displayed.

  5. Type a name for the conference in the “Conference name” text box.
  6. Use the Default Access drop-down list to select the room access that will be granted to all users.
  7. 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.

  8. For user administration see Administering Conferences and News Channels for more information.
  9. Click OK to return to the Manage Conferences Window.
  10. Click OK or Close to return to the Main Window.
  11. The new room appears in the Conference Room list.

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