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Community Chat [BETA]

The brand new Community Chat feature allows all registered users to join a real-time chat on any community with it enabled. Now you can chat live with your ezboard friends. We’ve added a bunch of cool, unique features to this BETA version of Community Chat that set us apart from the other available chat programs. Please keep in mind that Chat is still in development and is not yet finished. We will continue to develop following your comments and suggestions.

Key Information

This is a Gold Community feature. All registered users can chat.
Community Chat is currently a BETA release and the fully featured version will be released later. As with any BETA software, bugs and inconsistencies may show up.
Up to 25 users are allowed in a chat room at any given time.

How to use Community Chat

Admin:
How to turn on Community Chat on my community
How to hide Community Chat from Chatfinder
How to edit the colors for Community Chat
How to boot (ban) a user from chatroom
How to grant single session mod powers in Community Chat
User:
How to use Community Chat
Available Community Chat Features...
- Unified Login
- Color/Font Chooser
- Edit Your Comments
- Private Chat
- Emoticons
- Ignore User
- Continued Post
- URL Linking
- Text Mode
- Font Size Adjustment

Admin: How to turn on Community Chat on my community

Go to the My Community tab in your Control Center
Click on the Feature Options button
Check the box next to Enable Community Chat
Click Save Changes

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Admin: How to hide Community Chat from Chatfinder

Chatfinder is ezboard's chat room search engine. All chat rooms are listed by default in Chatfinder. If you would like to make your chat room private, just follow these easy steps.

To hide: Type '/hideroom' in the chat screen text window and press enter
To be listed: Type '/showroom' in the chat screen text window and press enter

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Admin: How to edit the colors for Community Chat

Go to the My Community tab in your Control Center
Click on Custom Colors
You can currently edit two colors for chat: Chat Box and Chat Highlight. All other colors are inherited from your board for this beta release.
When you are finished making changes, click Save Changes

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Admin: How to boot (ban) a user from a chatroom

To boot a user from chat (only admins and board mods can do this) is like banning a user from your ezboard: They can’t come back in until you unboot them.

To boot: Type '/boot' in the private chat screen of the user you want to boot
To unboot: Type '/showbooted' in the active chat screen – then type /unboot *number* - replace *number* with the number that showed up next to the booted user you want to

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Admin: How to grant single session Mod powers in Community Chat

Admins have the ability to grant any user mod powers for the life of a chat session. This allows you to give trusted users the power to boot (ban) users from chat if you are not going to be actively involved in the chat session.

To grant: Type '/grant' in the private chat screen of the user you want to grant mod powers to
To ungrant: Type '/ungrant' in the private chat screen of the user you want to grant mod powers to

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How to use Community Chat

To be able to load Chat on your system you must first have Java installed. To learn how to enable Java, click here for Internet Explorer) or click here (for non-Microsoft browsers).
You must be logged into your ezboard account to participate in Chat.

In the upper right hand corner of every board with Chat enabled you will see a link: Join Live Chat– click that link to launch the chat room.
Once the chat applet has loaded, simply type your desired content and press enter for others to see.
For a list of available features, read on...

User: Available Community Chat Features...

Unified Login - No need to create a new account, your ezboard account will be logged in automatically. Note: You must be logged into your ezboard account for Chat to be accessible. Local users can participate in Chat only at the community where they are registered.
Color/Font Chooser - You can choose your own text color with true-color control. You can also choose from 3 font options. The change will be reflected in all of your comments in the window.
Edit your Comments - If you make a typo, you can correct it by pressing F5 and your last comment will come up for you to fix.
Private Chat - Double click on someone's name in the user list on the right (or click on their name in the active chat window) to chat with them privately.
Emoticons – These are only shown at ends of lines:
(type the text that comes before the = sign)

:) =
:( =
:p =
:| =
:o) =
;) =
8) =

More to come…
Ignore User - There are 3 ways to ignore someone in the chat.

1 . Right-click their name in the active chat window and choose 'ignore '

2. Single left-click their name in the active chat window to bring up a private chat, and you can use the ignore button located there.

3. Double left-click their name in the user list on the right to bring up a private chat window, and you can use the ignore button located there.
Continued Post - Type one line and end it with 3 dots like this...
...start your next line with 3 dots, and the 2 will merge together into one line, and move to the bottom of the chat window as one message.
URL Linking - You may post URLs that will automatically be turned into links
e.g.,
```
http://www.ezboard.com
```
Text Mode – This lets you copy and paste text so you can post a chat transcript on your board. Switch back to graphic mode to use colored fonts, emoticons, and have clickable links.
Font Size Adjustment– Press 'CTRL' + the up arrow to increase font size. Press 'CTRL' + the down arrow to decrease font size. Single session only.

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