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are twenty drop down lists, one per pane. If the number of panes in the chosen layout is less than this, a gray line
separates the panes that are used from those that do not apply to this layout.
The first time you open the pane placement page for a conference all the panes are set to <default>. The MCU
decides which participant will appear in panes with this setting. See Understanding how participants display in layout
views for more information.
For each pane you can select an alternative setting:
■ <blank>: no participant appears in this pane
■ <rolling>: this pane shows conference participants, automatically changing at the configured "Pane rolling
interval" frequency from the Settings > Conferences page. All participants contributing video are shown in
rolling panes except for any participants explicitly placed in other panes.
Note: Rolling panes stop rolling if the number of rolling panes is greater than or equal to the total number of video
participants. In this scenario, participants will only be shown in the rolling panes and the default panes will remain
black. This is to stop participants being shown more than once.
■ <loudest speaker>: the participant who is speaking the loudest at any time appears in this pane
■ <content>: this pane is reserved for the content channel (see Content channel video support). If the content
channel is not used in this conference, this pane will be blank.
■ <name>: the name of each pre-configured endpoint in this conference, and (if the conference is active) the
names of all active participants whose endpoints were not pre-configured is displayed in the lists. If you select
a specific participant (endpoint), that participant appears in this pane at all times.
To use pane placement:
1. Click Enabled.
2. For each pane that you want to control, select an entry from the drop down list.
3. For panes that you no longer want to control individually, select <default>.
4. Click Update pane placement.
5. To return to the Custom layout page, click Custom layout.
More About Pane Placement
When you use pane placement, bear in mind that:
■ Pane placement only applies to conference custom layouts. If they are disabled so is pane placement
■ You can mix panes set to <default> with panes that have other settings
■ Any panes that you configure keep their setting even if you change the custom layout view. Therefore if you
configure all the panes in the 20 pane layout and then move to one with only five panes, panes 1 to 5 will have
the same settings as before. Panes 6 to 20 will also keep their settings, it is just that they are not used.
Therefore if you subsequently move to a layout with say 10 panes, all ten panes have their settings pre-
configured.
This does mean that if you have participants who need to be seen at all times, you should configure them in
the lower numbered panes
■ You must set up pane placement for each conference that you want to use it with
■ You can set up pane placement before a conference starts and configure pre-configured endpoints in to
particular panes. However you can only configure active participants whose endpoints are not pre-configured
when the conference is running
■ Pane placement persists over conference repetitions. If you set pane placement once, the same placements
are ready to be used when the conference next repeats
■ If you select a particular participant for a pane and they are disconnected for any reason, that pane appears
blank
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