Running a live conference

Mute, kick, lock, record and end a room that is happening now, without being able to create one.

A conference room is configuration: its number, its PINs, its rules, its default members. That belongs to the organisation admin. The live room is yours — the meeting that is happening at this moment — because that is what somebody running a shift needs during a meeting.

The controls

On a member	On the room
mute and unmute	lock and unlock
remove from the room	mute every participant
	start and stop recording
	end the room for everybody

You can also dial somebody into a room: the room rings them and joins them when they answer.

Ending a room ends it for every person in it, and the panel asks first.

Two kinds of room, one set of buttons

The same controls appear on a room made two different ways, and who may use them differs:

• A dial-in room — one the organisation set up, with a number people call. You may control it.
• A merged room — the one that appears when somebody conferences two calls together. Whoever may control the call it was made from may control the room, which for an agent means a call one of whose legs is their own. A room cannot be used to reach a call somebody could not otherwise touch.

There is a third way in, and it is the one people actually use in a meeting: being in the room yourself. Somebody without the permission who has dialled in is reached through their own leg, and can act on the room they are sitting in.

When it refuses

A room that has ended, or one belonging to an organisation you cannot see, reads as not found. A control that the phone system itself refused says which action failed and is logged with your name against it.

Reading rooms and their sessions is yours. Creating a room, editing one, deleting one and setting its default members are not — see conference rooms for what those settings do.