Sun Java System Instant Messaging 6 2004Q2 Online Help |

Contents Index

> # Moderating Public Conference Rooms

> A public conference room can be moderated by a user who has the MANAGE permission. The moderator can screen messages from users with READ only access and either accept or reject them. Accepted messages will be posted to the room. The moderator can edit the message before accepting it.

> Thus, if you want to create a moderated public conference room, to control what is posted, all users must be given READ only access.

> This section contains the following information:

> - Moderated Chat Window Overview
> - Accept Message
> - Reject Message
> - To Moderate a Conference Room

> ## Moderated Chat Window Overview

> A user who has the MANAGE permission can moderate a public conference room by clicking the Moderate button in the Chat window. As a result of moderating the room an extra window is added to the Chat window. This window contains the messages from users who have read only access to this room. The moderator can take one of the two actions on messages: accept or reject.

> ## Accept Message

> The moderator can select one or more messages in the table and then accept them. The accept action causes the messages to be posted to the room. The moderator can also select a single message and then edit it in the “detail view” window, and then accept the message. This causes the edited message to be posted to the room. The message posted to the room will contain the original user name appended at the end of the message, if so configured.

> ## Reject Message

> The moderator can also select one or more messages and reject them. The reject action causes the message to be deleted from the table of messages. No further action can be taken on a message that has been rejected. The user does not in anyway get notified when a message is rejected.

> ## To Moderate a Conference Room

> After you have created a conference room, and have given Read access to everyone, you can moderate the room by performing the following steps:

> 1. In the Conference tab window, double-click on a conference room name from the list of rooms displayed.

> The chat room opens.

> 2. Click Moderate.

> The window expands to display a list of incoming messages.

> 3. Highlight a message and click either Accept or Reject.

> If you click Accept, the message is posted to the conference room. If you click Reject, the message is not posted to the conference room.

> 4. Click Stop Moderating to close the moderating portion of the Chat window.

> The Chat Room window remains open.

> 5. Click Exit Session or Close.

Contents Index