To add a chat room, select the workspace A workspace is your personal organizer. It helps you make better decisions by providing all the information you need in one place. Each workspace holds the files you need, your appointments, contacts, tasks and daily news. You use the workspace to share documents and maps and to collaborate with your colleagues through email, discussion boards, polls, surveys and blogs. from the My Workspaces dropdown list where you wish to add a chat room, then click Chat Rooms under Collaboration in the left menu.

If you want to simply chat with another user, click on their username in the 'Users Online' box, you will be taken to their profile, then click 'Chat Now'. This will automatically create a private chat room for you.

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Prerequisites

  • You must be logged in.
  • You must have permission to add items.

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Procedure

  1. Click the Image Add button.
  2. Enter a name (required) and a description.
  3. Click the checkbox beside By Invitation Only? if you want to give access only to members you have invited to join the chat.
  4. Click the checkbox beside Workspace Members only? if you want to give access to this room only to the members of the workspace.
  5. Click one of the three options next to How long should this room be active for?.
    • Option 1: Delete the room when it is empty will automatically delete the room when all members have left it.
    • Option 2: Delete the room when I leave it will automatically delete the room the moment you leave it.
    • Option 3: I will delete it from the listing whenever I wish will require you to delete the room manually later.
  6. Click the Image Save and Close button.

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