Guidelines - Polycom RealPresence 800s Administrator's Manual

Conference Templates
In the RealPresence CloudAxis Solution, the conference templates are defined in the RealPresence
DMA system component and should not be defined directly in the RealPresence Collaboration Server
800s/Virtual Edition component.
Conference Templates enable administrators and operators to create, save, schedule and activate identical
conferences.
A Conference Template:
● Saves the conference Profile.
● Saves all participant parameters including their Personal Layout and Video Forcing settings.
● Simplifies the setting up Telepresence conferences where precise participant layout and video forcing
settings are crucial.

Guidelines

● The maximum number of templates is 100.A maximum of 200 participants can be saved in a
Conference Template.
Trying to start a Conference Template that exceeds the allowed maximum number of participants will
result in participants being disconnected due to resource deficiency.
● If the Profile assigned to a conference is deleted while the conference is ongoing the conference
cannot be saved as a template.
● A Profile assigned to a Conference Template cannot be deleted. The system does not permit such a
deletion.
● Profile parameters are not embedded in the Conference Template, and are taken from the Profile
when the Conference Template becomes an ongoing conference. Therefore, any changes to the
Profile parameters between the time the Conference Template was created and the time that it is
activated (and becomes an ongoing conference) will be applied to the conference.
● Only defined participants can be saved to the Conference Template. Before saving a conference to
a template ensure that all undefined participants have disconnected.
● Undefined participants are not saved in Conference Templates.
● Participant properties are embedded in the Conference Template and therefore, if the participant
properties are modified in the Address Book after the Conference Template has been created they
are not applied to the participant whether the Template becomes an ongoing conference or not.
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