FAQ EVENT

    These are the steps to create a moderated room or run a large-scale event. The moderators currently should use an IRC client rather than the Java client.

    Step 1:
    You will need to oper yourself using the oper command:
    /oper <nick> <password>

    Step 2:
    You need to now select the rooms that will be running the moderated event and the room that the moderators will scan questions from.

    Examples:
    All users and moderators would enter the room #live-chat
    All moderators would also be in the channel #live-scan

    Step 3:
    Moderation settings:
    /join #live-chat
    /samode #live-chat +o yournickname
    /mode #live-chat +tnmcdAM #live-chat

    Note that the mode +A is an Enterprise only feature.

    /join #live-scan
    /samode #live-scan +o yournickname
    /mode #live-scan +snN #live-chat

    The moderators/operators should be opped in both rooms. The regular users will be in #live-chat anything they say in that room will be forwarded to #live-scan. You can then select the questions you want to answer from #live-scan and paste them back into #live-chat.

    Additional Channel/Room mode information:
    /helpserv cmodes

    Note:
    Enterprise Users can also use the Java Event Wizard to assist them in event setup:
    /load EventWizard

    FAQ REGISTER

    This is how to get started really quickly on registering your nickname and room. Keep in mind all the commands start with a /.

    Step 1:
    Change your nickname from Guestxxx to your own nickname:
    /nick your-new-nickname

    You may get notification that the nickname is owned by someone else and that you must identify, which means you'll need to find a new nickname. You can find out if a nickname is already registered by using this command:
    /ns info nickname

    Step 2:
    Registering your nickname:
    Now that you have selected a nickname that you would like to own type the following information to register it:
    /ns register yourpassword youremail

    You do not put your nickname in this command, choose your own password and put your real email in the email field since it is a determining factor when trying to retrieve your password in case you lose it. Select a password that is hard to guess, using numbers and letters such as myp@ss or mypass987.

    Example:
    /ns register mypass987 example@webchat.org

    Step 3:
    Your nickname is now registered, which means you should now set secure options on, in order to avoid future takeovers and confusion. You can view additional options by typing:
    /ns help set on the server.

    Example:
    /ns set PROTECT on

    Should be used if you don't want people to use your nickname:
    /ns set secure on

    Secure will ignore your hostmask and force you to identify if you want access to rooms or additional settings on your nickname.

    Step 4:
    How to register a room:
    To register a room you need to first /join #room. Substitute #room with the name of the room you want. To check if the room is not already registered type:
    /cs info #room.

    Rooms always start with the # sign. When you join the room you will be opped, you will have a @ or a spider or your name will be in a different color, once you have this by your name you can register the room.

    Example:
    /cs register #room password description

    Once again substitute the password with your own password. The room description is a few words describing the type of room it is.

    Step 5:
    Now that your room is registered you should add the following settings:

    Only nicknames on the room list, will be opped:
    /cs set #channel OPGUARD on

    Locking room modes to prevent outside messages and topic changes from people who are not operators in the room:
    /cs set #channel MLOCK +nt

    Only SOPs are allowed to change the topic and ChanServ will remember your topic:
    /cs set #channel topiclock SOP

    From this point on if you want to add additional people to your room list you should consider adding them as AOPs instead of SOPs. Only people you strongly trust should be added as SOPs.

    Step 6:
    To Identify to NickServ use:
    /NickServ identify YourNicknamePassword
    or
    /pass YourNicknamePassword

    Identify to ChanServ using
    /ChanServ identify #room RoomlPassword

    Additional Information:
    /NickServ help
    /NickServ help <commands>

    /ChanServ help
    /ChanServ help <commands>

    FAQ SCRIBE

    Scribe is an Enterprise feature as well as an add-on module for the Professional and Developer editions of ConferenceRoom. Although there are more advanced ways of creating Scribe logs and transcripts we will give you the simple step by step procedure, to get started right away. Since this is a set of examples, we will use the name test as a configuration name and use the color Java theme for display.

    Step 1:
    Select the configuration name for this log and use the following command:
    /as log test add

    Now you can begin to configure how Scribe will log and how the logs will appear in a transcript HTML setting.

    STEP 2:
    Select the name of the file where you want to log in raw log format. This simply means that you will find in your /DB/LOGS/ folder a file with the LOG extension. Those are raw log format; they do not contain any type of editing:
    /as log test logfile chat.log

    Step 3:
    Select the room you want to log from: /as log test channel #myroom

    Step 4:
    Select the name of the HTML page for the Scribe transcripts. The web page extension should be .htm or .html:
    /as log test webpage mytest.htm

    Step 5:
    Now you can select the title of the log, the description and the theme you will use. The themes are from the Java Web theme selection:
    /as log test set title My Scribe Test
    /as log test set description This is a test to view Scribe Transcripts
    /as log test set theme colors

    Step 6:
    Now lets set the start and stop logging time and at what frequency to log. Don't give up we're there.
    /as log test time start 8:00a
    /as log test time stop 17:00p
    /as log test time interval daily

    The result of the above time settings would be for Scribe to start logging at 8:00am in the morning and stop at 5:00pm in the afternoon, every day.

    Step 7:
    /as log test enable

    You are now able to view the Scribe logs for test at:
    http://yourserveraddress/mytest.htm

    Additional Information:
    You will find additional information on Scribe at http://beta.webmaster.com/notes/scribe.html

    FAQ THEME

    Theme creation is fairly easy this is the step by step information on how to create your own themes.

    Step 1

    1. Select your theme name for the purpose of this example let's call it mytheme.
    2. Create a folder called mytheme in your /data/themes/ directory.
    3. Copy the content of /themes/default to the folder /themes/mytheme.

    Step 2

    In the /themes/mytheme directory, you can edit default.htm.

    If you wish to make the changes in the Applet tag rather than in the PRM files you will need to remove the ssp param. You should also copy the default.htm file and name it mytheme.htm which you will place in the /data/themes/ directory. You would add your parameters in the format of:
    <param name=value value="value">
    <param name=connect value="false">

    In the PRM files the changes are done in this format:
    param=value
    connect=false

    Note:
    If you want to make modification directly on the applet DO NOT OPEN the applet with HTML editors, for example FrontPage. Using HTML editors often removes important data the applet tag will need. This will cause your applet not to function. Use this method instead:
    On Your browser click on VIEW > Source
    That will open the source in Notepad where you can make the modifications directly.

    When you are done click on file > save as > "mytheme.htm" all files.

    Step 3:
    In the /data/params/ copy the def.prm file and rename the copy to mytheme.prm.

    You can open the PRM file using notepad in windows or your Unix editor if you are running a Unix edition of ConferenceRoom. You can then edit add and change all the parameters within the mytheme.prm file to create a custom look for your theme.

    Additional Information:
    You will find an active link for the latest Java parameters list at: http://www.webmaster.com/update.shtml