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Log in the flash client as administrator and click the "dmin"button at the top of the menu to enter admin panel. The top buttons have the following functions respectively:
Monitor
In the "monitor"panel, the administrator can monitor every action of all logged in users.
For example: connect to server, login, enter room, exit room, change room, logout chat server, etc.
Other information shown here includes: logged in user IP, country and time stamp.
Note: Once a user logs in with a username and password they have a unique user-id, that's the username he used to log in. Despite any nickname they may choose to change to afterwards, their user-id will remain the same and will be displayed in the monitor window until they log out.
SETTINGS
In the "settings"panel, you can change the following variables:
Parameter |
Type |
Description |
Enable user registertion |
CheckBox |
Check to enable user registration |
Enable guest login |
CheckBox |
Check to enable guest login |
Save public chat history |
CheckBox |
Check it to save the message history on the chat server |
Save private chat history |
CheckBox |
Check it to save the message history on the chat server, by default it¡¯s not checked. |
Timezone |
Number |
Define timezone for the chat room. |
Also in this tray, you can change logo and filter words.
Rooms
In the ¡°room¡± panel, you can add, delete or edit rooms, controlled by the right botoom buttons.
You will be notified of the result of the action of ¡°add¡±, ¡°delete¡± or ¡°edit¡±.
Rooms you add will appear in real-time in the list of rooms.
In the room details section, an asterisk (*) indicates a required field.
Room name: name of current room.
moderator : he can kick a nuisance person from using the current chat room and set a room to 'oderated-chat'. In such a room, all messages from ordinary users will be disabled from being displayed publicly unless the moderator or admin passed them.
("Moderated-chat"is a plug-in module which is not included in the standard full version by default.)
Max users: This value is limited to the license you have purchased.
Password: Leave this blank if you want this to be a public room.
Speaker: Is another user type used in 'Moderated-chat'. The speaker can freely chat and their words will be displayed publicly without the consent of the moderator or admin. Leave this as 'null' if you do not need a speaker.
Description: Chat room introduction to attract visitors..
Member only: This defines whether guests can access a particular room.
Set room public time: Set the public time of the specific room. Click "add"to add a rule first and click "submit"to save changes.
The room mode:
- "normal" means certain time period of each day or certain day of a week.
- "special" means special chat event of a particular day.
- "EveryHour" means recurring period of each hour.
Ban
In the ¡°Ban Panel¡± admin can ban users or ban IP.
Ban or unban a username.
Note: This applies to the user's original username, not their currently displayed nickname. If you ban someone but it fails, please find out their real username in the monitor window and try again.
Ban or unban an IP address or IP range,
Announcement
In the "Announce Panel" you can broadcast messages to every logged in user, whether in specific chat rooms or just in the room list page.
Admin Account
Here you can manage the multiple admin accounts.
You can also update the administrator password here. Due to security reasons it is very important to change the default admin password after you have set up the chat server for the first time.
The new password will be stored in default.xml as MD5 encrypted.
Tip: If you forget the admin password, you can manually edit admin tag in ¡°default.xml¡±, do not forget to change the admin tag md5=¡°off¡±.
For example:
Now you can log into chat with the new password: ¡°mypassword¡±.
Then admin panel-> password panel, edit password again.
In this way your final password will be stored in fcserver.xml as a MD5 encrypted string.
Chat bot Message
This feature can be used for site news or text advertisements.
With "Chat Bot", specific message(s) can be broadcast to specific rooms or all rooms at predefined intervals.
Messages can be added, edited and removed from the list.
There can be multiple messages for one room, or one message for all rooms.
updated at 2008-2-28 |
