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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:
Select the Conferences tab in the main Instant Messenger window.
Select the Add Conferences from the File menu or click the Add Conferences icon.
The Add Conferences window appears with the following items:
Find Conference — Allows you to enter the ID of a conference. If you do not know the exact ID of the conference, enter the first three characters in the Id field.
Browse Conferences — Provides an unfiltered list of all available conferences (to the maximum results limit).
After you press the Browse Conferences button, a list of matching conferences is displayed. Select desired conferences and click OK.
The selected conferences are shown in the list of conferences to add pane.
OK button — Adds conference to your Conferences tab.
Cancel button — Returns without adding a new conference.
Help button — Displays this Help topic.
To Unsubscribe From a Conference
This removes a selected conference from the list of conferences.
- Select the Conferences tab in the main Instant Messenger window.
- Select the conference you wish to unsubscribe from.
- Select Remove Conferences from the File menu.
The conference is removed from the conference list pane.
To Create a News Channel
- In the Main window, select News from the Tools menu.
The News Channels window appears.
- Select the Manage News Channel option from the Tools menu of the News
Channels window.
The Manage News Channel window appears.
- Click the news Channel Administration button.
The News Channel Administration Window appears.
- Click on the new news Channel button.
- Type a name for the news channel in the News channel text box.
- Use the Default Access drop-down list to select the access options to be
granted to all users.
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.
- For user administration Administering Conferences and News Channels for more information.
- Click OK to return to the Manage News Channel.
The new news channel appears in the select news channel text list.