Message Overlay; Guidelines - Polycom RMX 1500 Administrator's Manual

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For flag changes to take effect, reset the MCU. For more information see "Resetting the RMX" on
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Message Overlay

Message Overlay allows the operator or administrator to send messages to participants
during an ongoing conference.
Messages can be sent in the following ways:
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In both cases the text message is seen as part of the in the participant's video layout on the
endpoint screen or desktop display.

Guidelines

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In the Value field enter YES to enable Closed Captions or NO to disable their display.
Click OK to close the New Flag dialog box.
The new flag is added to the flags list.
Click OK to close the System Flags dialog box.
Message Overlay - allows messages to be sent to all participants in an ongoing
conference.
Participant Message Overlay - allows messages to be sent to a single participant or a
selected number of participants during an ongoing conference.
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Message Overlay is supported in:
— continuous Presence (CP) conferences
— in Same Layout mode
— in encrypted conferences
Message Overlay supports Unicode or ASCII characters.
The number of characters for each language can vary due to the type of font used, for
example, the available number of characters for Chinese is 32 while for English and
Russian it is 48.
Message Overlay is not supported in Lecture mode.
Participants that have their video suspended do not receive Message Overlays.
Message Overlay cannot be sent via the Content channel.
Message Overlay is not displayed when the PCM menu is active.
If a Repeating Message Overlay is modified before it has completed all its repetitions, it is
changed immediately without completing all of its repetitions. The modified Repeating
Message Overlay is displayed starting with repetition one.
Chapter 2-Additional Conferencing Information
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