The General Settings page is used to configure conference basic settings: description, participant password, conference maximal duration, etc.
The General Settings page contains following components:
Conference ID requires the unique ID of the conference.
Description requires any descriptive information about the conference.
Moderator Password text field requires a password for the moderator access to the conference. The password inserted here should be used by the moderator to join the conference. Moderator is able to use conference codes during the active call conference as well as to access conference specific GUI pages and coordinate the conference (view/change conference properties, activate/deactivate it, start/stop/resume recording, view conference statistics). Confirm text field requires the confirmation of the Moderator Password. Error appears if the password inserted in the Confirm text field does not match the one inserted in the Moderator Password text field.
Participant Password can be entered to require a password for participant access to the conference. It has to be entered twice for confirmation. The password entered here should be used by the participant to join the conference. The participant can participate in the conference only according to the rights (speaker or listener) granted by the moderator.
Max. Duration sets the conference to be limited to a maximum duration (in minutes). Leave the field empty for unlimited conference duration.
With the Play Hold Music Until Moderator is Connected checkbox selected, participants connected to the conference will listen to the hold music unless moderator will join the conference.
Automatic Speaker Detection checkbox enables the automatic detection of the loudest participant in the conference (the current speaker) and switching the video on all of the video conferencing phones in automatic mode to the video from that participant. For making the video source switching decision in automatic mode, the Video Conferencing uses the values of the following parameters:
Calculate the voice energy for the last [] sec.
Calculate the voice energy every [] sec.
Switch to new Video Source if energy difference is more than [] dB.
For example, if the values of the parameters are 3, 1 and 6 (default values) correspondingly, the Conference Server will calculate every one second the
average voice energy of each participant during the last three seconds. Then the largest calculated value will be compared to the average voice energy of
the participant providing currently the video for all phones in automatic mode. If the difference between energies is more than 6dB then the Conference Server
will switch the video to a new source having the largest voice energy.
Leave Active checkbox will keep conference active, even if all participants have left it.
Close the Conference if Moderator did not join in - the idea of including this parameter is as follows:
If the conference is activated by one of the existing ways and the moderator does not join the conference within the first X minutes then the conference
will be closed by the system. No message will be played to the joined users in this case. The conference will be closed in one of the following cases:
The conference is activated by a schedule, and the moderator did not join within the first X minutes after activation.
The only method of distinguishing the moderator from the other participants is the moderator's password.
If the user entered the moderator's password during the joining process then he/she is a moderator.
There are no other means of distinguishing the moderator from the regular participant.
The conference is activated by a participant when dialing in, and the Activate On Dial In checkbox is enabled for that conference.
During the joining process, the participant either did not enter any password or entered a regular participant's password. In this case,
the same as above, if the moderator did not join the conference within the first X minutes entering moderator's password, the conference will be closed.
The conference is activated by a moderator from GUI. In this case, even though the moderator activated the conference and did not join within the first X minutes,
the conference will be closed. In all the above mentioned cases, the conference will be closed regardless of the number of regular participants already joined.
Close the conference if only one participant is connected - if enabled, then the conference will be closed as soon as there is only one participant connected to the
conference, after the moderator left the conference. If the moderator did not join yet (during the first X minutes as described above), the conference will stay active even
if there is only one participant connected yet. If the moderator is the only participant connected to conference then it will stay active.
Play notification before Conference close. When the Max Duration (M) of the conference is reached (see Instant Conferencing Settings if configured),
the system will close the conference and M minutes before closing the conference the system will play the warning message to all participants.