User Guide

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Breeze terms and concepts
If you are new to Breeze Manager, this section contains some terminology you might find helpful.
For more information, see the following sections:
• “Meetings and seminars versus meeting rooms and seminar rooms” on page 21
• “Breeze content” on page 21
• “Breeze events” on page 22
• “Breeze reports” on page 22
Meetings and seminars versus meeting rooms and seminar rooms
A Macromedia Breeze Meeting is an online real-time meeting in which a presenter can show slides
or multimedia presentations, share pages, chat, and broadcast live audio and video. A Breeze
Meeting takes place in a Breeze meeting room, a Macromedia Flash application that you run in a
browser window by using Macromedia Flash Player. The meeting room continues to exist even
after the meeting is over.
In addition, depending on the pricing model your organization has purchased, you might or
might not be able to enter a meeting if the meeting is not live. In some cases, only the host can
enter the meeting room when the meeting is not live. In other cases, you can enter the meeting
room when the meeting is not live if enough meeting room spaces are available across the system
at the moment you enter.
You create the meeting room with Breeze Manager. In Breeze Manager, all Breeze meeting rooms
are contained in the Meeting library. For more details about the library, as well as procedures for
joining, participating in, and setting up meetings, see Chapter 9, “Working with Meetings,” on
page 127.
A Breeze seminar is a unique kind of Breeze Meeting, with its own licensing requirements and
attributes. A seminar room is comparable to a meeting room, that is, a Flash application that runs
in a browser window. Unlike some meeting rooms, however, at least one Breeze presenter or host
for the seminar must be in the room in order for others to enter, even if the seminar is a public
meeting. A seminar ends if all the presenters and hosts exit from the room. Because of their
unique requirements and format, seminars have a dedicated Breeze Manager tab named Seminar
Rooms, as well as their own Seminar library. A seminar ends if all meeting users with presenter or
host rights exit from the meeting. For general information on seminars, see Chapter 11, “About
Seminars,” on page 159.
Breeze content
Any file or folder that is stored in the Breeze Content library is referred to in Breeze as content.
Content is synonymous with information and accessed from the Content tab of Breeze Manager.
The Content library is associated with Breeze authors (see “Breeze Manager users” on page 7), the
only users who can upload files to this library. For information about the library, the types of files
it contains, and how to use it, see Chapter 3, “Working with Content,” on page 35.