Sending Messages To All Conference Participants Using Message Overlay (Avc-Based Conferences) - Polycom RealPresence Getting Started Manual

When the Mute Participants Except Lecturer option is enabled and a conference has started,
the Mute by MCU icon is displayed in the Audio column in the Participants pane of each
participant that is muted.
Sending Messages to All Conference Participants Using Message
Overlay (AVC-based Conferences)
Messages can be sent during a conference to a single participant, selected number of
participants or all participants in an ongoing conference. For more information see the
Polycom® RealPresence Collaboration Server 800s Administrator's Guide "Audio Algorithm
Support" on page 3-25.
To send messages to all conference participants using Message Overlay:
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When sending text messages using Message Overlay and stopping the text messaging in the
middle, you must change (and then cancel the change) one of the message overlay properties in the
Conference Properties - Message Overlay dialog box before you can re-send the same message.
To cancel the Message Overlay display:
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In the Conferences List pane, double click the name of the conference to have Message
Overlay enabled or right-click the conference name and then click Conference
Properties.
Click the Message Overlay tab.
Select the Enable check box.
In the Content field, enter the text to be displayed to all the conference participants.
The number of characters that can be included in a message varies according to the
language and can differ due to the type of font used. For example, the available number
of characters in Chinese is 32 and 48 for English and Russian.
Modify the remaining fields in the dialog box to display the message as required.
Click OK.
Repeat Step 1 and Step 2 in the enabling procedure above.
Clear the Enable check box.
Click OK.
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