The Administration Console is a tabbed interface based on functionality. Click on a tab to get to the controls for the feature. The following list reflects the tabs in the same order as they appear in the Administration Console. Click on any of the links for more information.

About - Information on your system & server

Configure - Room Configuration commands

• Info - Welcome screen

• Topic - Set room topic

• Open/Close - Open or close room to visitors

• Transcripts - Start or stop logging for transcript of chat session

• Password - Set and remove Room password

• Profanity - Turn on and off the profanity filter

User - User control commands

• Info - User controls welcome screen

• Expel/Ban/Gag - Expel or ban user by name or IP address

• Remote Control

• Live Connect (TM)

Messages - Send a message to a single or all user(s)

Cruise - Make a single or all users surf automatically to specified URL

Paging - Set the target for the %page requests

Moderation - Set room moderation features

• Info

• Status

• Moderator

• Speaker

Topic - Set room topic

Just enter the new topic and click "Set". Note new topic is visible for any new user entering the room.

Open/Close  - Open or close room to visitors

If the room is closed, click on Open to open the room. To close the room, enter the message users will see when they visit and the click on the Close button. When a room is closed, new users cannot enter the room but any exisiting users can remain in the room. If you want visitors currently in the room to leave, check the 'Also empty this room'

Transcripts  - Start or stop logging for transcript of chat session

To generate transcripts from a ParaChat room, log into the room using your Group admin name and password, or an admin user name and password that has been designated for the room. Launch the GUI Admin Console by typing the following command into the room's text input field: %admin

To generate session-based chat transcripts, select the "Configure" tab, then the "Transcripts" tab. Enter a name for the transcript for that session, and press the START button. Each transcript requires a new name. However, if you assign the name of an existing transcript, that transcript log file is appended -- not over-written. The admin user who initiated the transcript must remain logged in for the duration of the session, or transcript logging will stop when they exit. When the session is over, click the STOP button to stop logging room content.

To generate chat transcripts automatically from the Admin Console, select the "Configure" tab, then the "Transcripts" tab. Under "Automatic Transcript Generation", click the START button to Start Continuous Logging. A single log file, called auto.log, will continually append until automatic transcript generation is manually stopped by clicking the STOP button. The administrator does not need to remain logged in for automatic transcript generation to continue.

The web-based Server Administration Pages may also be used to manage Automatic Transcript Generation, and to retrieve the transcripts that have been generated.

Password - Set and remove Room password

Either enter a password and click on Set, or click on No Password to make the room accessible without a password.

Profanity - Turn the Profanity Filter on & off

Turning the Profanity Filter ON will replace all words that are filtered by the chat server with "%%%%" in the chat window. Turn the Profanity Filter OFF to prevent words from being filtered by the chat server.

Expel/Ban  - Expel or ban user by name or IP address

Either enter the user name or click on Get User to get the highlighted user name from the chat window. Check on options "also ban the IP address" and "also ban the entire C class IP range" and then click on "Ban/Expel" button to expel or ban the user.

Gag

Allows you to have a user stay in the room, but none of their chat text is displayed in the room. Their text is displayed on their screen so they think that they are still annoying the room. However, they are not aware that their text is being blocked in the room and usually give up and leave without knowing that they have been "gagged".

Remote Control

Execute chat commands on behalf of any user who is logged into the chat room. For example, the room admin can change the chat window properties (i.e. sounds, fonts, colors, font size, float, etc.) of another user's chat window.

An example of how to force a sound into the room would be to use the "OnConnect" command:

%beep play laugh.au

This would play the "laugh" sound to either the entire room or just to an individual user.

To add a new control to the "Remote Control" list and save it for future use, click "Add Control" then "Save to Server". To remove a control from the "Stored Control" list, click "Delete Control". To retrieve your list of stored controls, click "Load from Server".

Here is a list of "OnConnect" commands:

Live Connect (TM)

Send Live JavaScript commands to any user that is logged into the chat room. The JavaScript command is executed by the remote user's browser. Using this feature requires customization of the chat applet.

To enable this feature you will need to add MAYSCRIPT at the end of the <applet> tag.

Example:

<!-- Begin Chat  Applet Code -->

<applet codebase="http://pro5.parachatpro.com/pchat/pro5/classes"

archive=pchat.zip code=ParaChat.class HEIGHT=400 WIDTH=600 MAYSCRIPT>

...........

Then you can push a Javascript command like this:

window.open("http://cnn.com", "");

Messages  - Send a message to a single user, or to all users.

This is especially useful for sending routine or common messages, which can be saved to the chat server for future reference. Either enter a message in the text box, or select the message from your pre-defined list. To send the message to a single user, highlight the user's name on the user list, select "To Highlighted User", and press "Send Message". To send the message to all users in the room, select "To Entire Room" and press "Send Message".

To add a new message to the "Stored Messages" list and save it for future use, click "Add Message" then "Save to Server". To remove a message from the "Stored Messages" list, click "Delete Message". To retrieve your list of Stored Messages, click "Load from Server".

Cruise  - Force a new browser window to open to a specified URL.

This is especially useful for sending routine or common URLs, which can be saved to the chat server for future reference. Either enter a URL in the text box, or select the URL from your pre-defined list. To send the URL to a single user, highlight the user's name on the user list, select "To Highlighted User", and press "Make them Cruise". To send the message to all users in the room, select "To Entire Room" and press "Make them Cruise".

To add a new URL to the "Stored URL List" and save it for future use, click "Add Item" then "Save to Server". To remove a message from the "Stored URL List", click "Delete Item". To retrieve your list of Stored URLs, click "Load from Server".

Paging

Sets the user who will receive the requests when a room admin is paged from the Control Panel By default, the room admin user is the target of Page requests.

You may change the target user to another user for when a room admin is paged from the Control Panel, but is not in the room. You can choose to save these settings or use them only for the current chat session. Enter a user name, or select a user from the User List, and click "Save target". This user will receive Page requests instead of the room admin. To retain this user as the target of Page requests, click "Save it for future sessions" before pressing "Save target"

Moderation - Set room moderation features

Status: This lets you either set the room to moderated mode or remove the room from moderated mode

Add Speakers : This lets you select a user or enter a user name and add it to the allowed list of speakers.

Remove Speakers : This lets you select a user or enter a user name and delete it from the allowed list of speakers.