connections:functionality:chatrooms
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| + | You can create chat rooms to discuss either some item, author or some other issue. You can either create a room or join an existing room. Everything starts with the "My chat rooms" widget: | ||
| - | Following functionality available: | + | {{:connections:functionality:chatrooms_widget.png|}} |
| - | - on "My discussion groups" widgets you can see your last 3 favorite chat rooms | + | ===== Creating a chat room ===== |
| - | - on "List all groups" function - a floatbox must open up where you must see publicly available chat rooms or chat rooms created by you | + | * **Step 1:** Click on "Create chat room" link on the widget or click "List all rooms" -> "Create chat room" |
| - | - On "Create chat room" - a floatbox must open where you can create a new chat room by specifying its options | + | * **Step 2:** Fill out the "Create chat room" form: |
| - | - You can create chat rooms to be password-protected, invitations-only, visible/invisible publicly | + | {{:connections:functionality:create_chatroom1.png|}} |
| - | - Only the chat room owner can change these settings | + | |
| - | - In a chat room chat room owner can ban other users. To unban a user - the chat room owner must go to chat room settings -> "Banned users" list | + | * **Step 3:** Edit room settings: |
| - | - You can pop-out a chat in a pop-up window or pop-in if popped-out | + | {{:connections:functionality:create_chatroom2.png|}} |
| - | - You can turn the notification sound on/off in a chat room | + | |
| - | - Each user's nickname and text color must be in a different color, while the user should see himself and his texts as orange | + | **Please note:** |
| + | * Here you can set the chat-room to be password-protected, invitation-based or publicly invisible | ||
| + | * Once you have created a chat room, you are the only one who can change its settings | ||
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| + | ===== Joining a chat room ===== | ||
| + | * Either select a chat room on your "My chat rooms" widget or click "List all rooms" and look up any room from there, and just click on the room title: | ||
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| + | {{:connections:functionality:cr_room.jpg|}} | ||
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| + | * Remember that the room can be password-protected or invitations-only, then you must be invited or know the password, otherwise you can't access the room | ||
| + | * Once you are in the chat room, you can add the room to your favorites by clicking the "Add to favorites" icon, turn conversation notification sound on/off by clicking the "Sound ON/OFF" icon or go to list of chat rooms by clicking the "Return to list" icon | ||
| + | * You can also see chat room topic and title on top | ||
| + | * You can see chat users on the right, once you mouse-over users, you can visit their profiles | ||
| + | * You can pop-out the chat room window clicking "Pop-out" icon if you have it in a floatbox or you can pop-in the chat room window by clicking the "Pop-in" icon if you have it popped-out in a pop-up window | ||
| + | * Each user's nickname and text color must be in a different color, while the user should see himself and his texts as orange | ||
connections/functionality/chatrooms.txt · Last modified: 2012/04/22 05:21 (external edit)
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