An auditorium allows you to have large events with moderators, guests, and an audience. The auditorium is divided between moderators and guests on stage and all others in the audience. Chat messages from audience members are sent only to moderators on stage who can post selected questions or comments to the auditorium. Everyone in the auditorium sees the chat messages from those on stage.
Moderators and guests enter the auditorium through the stage
entrance, denoted by applets with the stage parameter set
to true. You can restrict the stage entrance to a
particular part of your Web site by defining the VolanoChatPro server
entrance.stage URL prefix. Although both the stage entrance
and a normal entrance are shown on this page for demonstration purposes,
you will probably want to protect the stage entrance Web page with a
password.
The auditorium chat room is created dynamically when either a moderator or a guest enter on stage.
A moderator is a VolanoChat administrator who enters on stage. You
must first set the admin.password server property before
you can access the server as an administrator. You must also authorize
this Web page as a stage entrance by defining its URL (or the URL of a
parent directory) with the entrance.stage server property.
A guest is a normal VolanoChat user who enters on stage. You must
first authorize this Web page as a stage entrance by defining its URL
(or the URL of a parent directory) with the entrance.stage
server property.
All other users can enter the audience part of the auditorium for the moderated event.