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Creating a New Room or News Channel
This section contains the following information:
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:
ID — Type the ID you want to assign to the new conference room or news channel. The ID will be stored in the server.
Conference name or News channel text box — Type the name you want to assign to the new conference room or news channel.
Default Access list box — Displays a drop-down list of Access levels you can set for all users. If you want to assign specific privileges to individuals, use the Room or News Channel Administration window. See Administering Conferences and News Channels for more information.
Show participants — (Conference rooms only) Check to display a list of current users in the room.
OK button — Creates the new room or news channel.
Cancel button — Returns without creating a new room or news channel.
Help button — Displays this Help topic.
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 and Remove Conference options are disabled in the File menu and the Manage Conference option is disabled in the Tools menu of the main Instant Messenger window.
- In the Main Window, with the Conference tab selected, select the Manage Conference
option from the Tools menu.
The Conference Room Administration Window is displayed.
- Click the New Conference button.
The Create a New Conference window is displayed.
- Type an ID you want in the ID text box
- Type a name for the conference in the Conference name text box.
- Use the Default Access drop-down list to select the room access that will
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, and not send them.
None: Select None, if you want only a few users to be able to use this conference room.
- For user administration see Administering Conferences and News Channels for more information.
- Click OK to return to the Manage Conferences Window.
- Click OK or Close to return to the Main Window.
The new room appears in the Conference Room list.