Maintenance Manual

Related Topics
■ Displaying conference lists
■ Configuring VNC endpoints
■ Configuring H.323 endpoints
■ Configuring SIP endpoints
Customizing Layout Views
You can select custom layouts to use for all conference participants. To use this option:
1. Go to Conferences.
2. Click a Conference name and then click the Custom layout tab.
3. Click on the layout you want to use from those shown in the Available layouts. There are different numbers of
panes and pane configurations to choose from.
The chosen layout is displayed enlarged to the left in the Conference custom layout section of the page and
the Enabled radio button is selected.
4. If you want to select the participants who appear in a pane manually rather than letting the MCU make the
most appropriate selection, click Pane placement.
See Using pane placement below.
5. To have all participants see this layout when they join the conference click Make new participants see this
view.
6. If you also want all participants to see this view now, click Switch all participants to this view.
The following table explains the details that display.
Field Field Description Usage Tips
Conference Custom Layout
Current
status
Whether a custom layout can be used for this
participant.
When you click a new layout from the Available
layouts, Enabled is automatically chosen with
the most recent layout selected.
Make new
participants
see this
view
New participants joining this conference will
view the conference with this custom layout
rather than one of the default views (see
Customizing a participant's layout display).
To force all participants to use this layout, click
Switch all participants to this view.
If a participant has chosen to use a custom
conference layout (see Customizing a
participant's layout display), their view will
automatically update and switch to the new
view.
Available layouts
Displays all the conference layouts that are
available. Click a layout to select it and make it
available.
You can only select one custom layout at a time.
Using Pane Placement
To have more control over which participant appears in which pane, you can use the Pane placement function. Pane
placement works on a per conference basis.
Pane placement works on the selected custom layout in the Conference custom layout page - see Customizing
layout views. The chosen custom layout is shown with the panes numbered. The largest (and therefore most
important) panes have the lowest numbers. Because the largest number of panes in any custom layout is 20, there
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