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connections:functionality:chatrooms [2011/04/14 08:45]
jposeika [Creating a chat room]
connections:functionality:chatrooms [2012/04/22 05:21]
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-====== Chat rooms section ====== 
-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: 
  
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-===== Creating a chat room ===== 
-  * **Step 1:** Click on "​Create chat room" link on the widget or click "List all rooms" -> "​Create chat room" 
-  * **Step 2:** Fill out the "​Create chat room" form: 
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-  * **Step 3:** Edit room settings: 
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-**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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-  * 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 
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