This is the main console which you will see immediately when you log in as the administrator.
The functions you can perform here are listed below :
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Kick -- Select someone on the user list and press this to kick the person out of the room.
- Send URL -- Type a valid URL in the text field and select a user or all users to send the URL. URLs must start with the apropriate protocol.
- Room Manager -- Open the Room Manager window.
- Profanity Manager -- Open the Profanity Manager window.
- Enable Audio -- Toggles whether users can send audio messages.
- Help -- Open URL link to this help.
This window is launched when you click on "Room Manager" in the main console.
The functions you can perform here are listed below :
- Go To Room -- Use this to go to any room without a need for password authentication.
- Open Room -- Open a room which has been closed.
- Purge Room -- Kick all users from the room, all the users will be logged out. You cannot remove yourself if you happen to be in the room.
- Set Password -- Open the Password Manager Window for the selected room.
- Close Room -- Close a room to prevent any user from entering the room. Current users in the room are unaffected and can change room.
- Destroy Room -- Remove a room from the chat system. The room must first be empty of users. This change is permanent and is reflected on the server side.
- Create Room -- Type in a name for a new room and click this to create it.
- Rename Room -- Select an existing room, type in the new name and click this to rename the room.
- Send Message -- You can send a privileged administrator message to a single room or to all rooms. Just click on ".. to All Rooms" to send to all and ".. to Selected Room" to a single room you selected.
- Change Password -- This changes the administrator password. Change is permanent and is reflected on the server side and saved into your administrator password file.
- Close -- Close the Room Manager Window.
You can click on any of the rooms listed to see who are the users in that particular room.
This window is launched when you click on "Set Password" for a selected room in the Room Manager. Everytime this window is opened, you are configuring passwords for a selected room in the Room Manager, and not all the rooms. To change room to configure for, select another room in the Room Manager and click "Set Password" again. The Password Manager will refresh itself according to the settings of that room.
The functions you can perform here are listed below :
- Add -- Add a user with his/her password to the room.
- Change -- Changes a user's password. To change a user's login name, remove his old entry and key in the new login name and password.
- Remove -- Remove the selected user.
- Remove All -- Remove all users and their passwords from the room.
- Activate Room Password-Protection -- Protect the room with a general password which all users can use to access the room.
- Activate User Password-Protection -- Protect the room with users' login name and password entries.
- Save -- Save all changes that you have made. All changes are temporary until this has been clicked or you are prompted to save them.
- Close -- Close the Password Manager window.
If you have both modes of password-protection activated, users can use either of the passwords to gain access to the room. Please note that users cannot direct-login to a password-protected room.
This window is launched when you click on "Profanity Manager" in the main console.
The functions you can perform here are listed below :
- Add -- Add profanities to the list. You can add multiple entries seperated by commas. Entries can be a single word or a phrase.
- Delete -- Delete one or more entries in the list. To delete more than one entry, just click on the items in the list.
- Clear All -- Remove all profanity entries from the list.
- Enable Profanity Detection -- Toggles profanity detection for all rooms.
- Filter messages with profanity -- Toggles profanity filter. If this is activated, messages with profanity in them will not be displayed to the other users in the room. The offence is still counted against the culprit.
- Auto-kick user when limit exceeded -- Toggles automatic kicking of vulgar users who persist on using profanities. Indicate the number of times the user can commit the offence before being kicked out in the Auto-kick Limit box.
- Auto-kick permanent -- If activated, users who are kicked out cannot log in to the chat system again.
- Save -- Save all changes that you have made.
- Close -- Close the Profanity Manager window.
This window is launched when you click on "Configure" in the main console.
The functions you can perform here are listed below :
- Add -- Add a single IP address or a range of IP addresses to the list. Examples of valid entries include "127.0.0.1", "169.45.30-70.*", "56.*.*.*".
- Delete -- Delete one or more entries in the list. To delete more than one entry, just click on the items in the list.
- Save -- Save all changes that you have made.
- Close -- Close the Profanity Manager window.
To change your administrator password, key in the new password and click on "Save".