Sending A Message To Participants During A Conference - Polycom RealPresence 1800 Administration Manual

 Move to Conference - To move the participant to another ongoing CP conference.
 Back to Home Conference - If the participant was moved to another conference or to an
Operator conference, this options returns the participant back the original conference.
This option is not available if the participant was moved from an Entry Queue to an active
conference.
4 In the Move to Conference, select the destination conference and click OK.
Sending a Message to Participants During a
Conference
Using the Message Overlay feature, an RMX administrator or operator can send messages to a single
conference participant, a number of selected participants, or all conference participants. The RMX user can
enable or modify the Message Overlay feature for active conferences or for future conferences as part of
the conference profile.
The Message Overlay feature is not available:
● In Video Switching (VSW) conferences.
● In Lecture Mode
● When the PCM menu is active
● On endpoints that have their video suspended
Note: The content streams sent by the RealPresence Collaboration Server towards SVC endpoints
are AVC (H.264 encoded) streams. Enabling content transcoding in a Mixed mode conference
causes the RealPresence Collaboration Server to use a single content encoder for sending content
to H.264 AVC and SVC endpoints. Similar to the AVC endpoints, all SVC endpoints joining a
conference with message overlay on content stream enabled, receive the configured message
overlay on their content streams in content transcoding mode. But SVC endpoints don't receive the
same message overlay on their people video, as by design RealPresence Collaboration Server
doesn't support message overlay on SVC video streams.
To send messages to conference participants:
1 In the RMX Manager Conferences List, select the active conference of interest.
2 In the Participant list, select the participants to receive the message.
3 Right-click and select Send Text Message to Participant.
4 In the Conferences list, again select the conference of interest.
5 Right click and select Conference Properties.
6 Go to Message Overlay and check the Enable option.
7 In the Content field, enter the message text (up to 50 characters) to be displayed to selected
conference participants.
Note that the number of characters that can be included in a message varies according to the
language and the type and size of font used.
8 Specify the font size, color, position, and transparency.
9 Specify the speed at which the text should move (static, slow, or fast) and how often it should repeat.
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