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If your lists are becoming a bit long, don't forget to turn off "Show Offline Peers" either in your Preferences or under your Peer List Menu. |
This section examines a few of the more advanced features of Ding! including watcher lists, event histories, and setting your personal preferences. Watcher List
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You can easily change someone's watcher privileges by either dragging the peer's icon to the appropriate list, or right-clicking on their name and selecting "Deny" or "Add to Peers" from the pop-up menu that appears. If you have denied a peer, you will appear as a white 'offline' icon in that peer's list.![]() |
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Event Histories An event between you and anyone in your peer list may be kept in the peer's history buffer. ![]() To view stored events for a specific peer, right-click on a peer and select "History." In the history window, you can view the record of events between you and the selected peer, or you can clear the events if you no longer need them.
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Ding! contains multiple sound sets. Pick the ding that sounds best to you. |
Preferences
Each tab in the preferences window has several related settings options listed. You can define the general presentation of your main window, set your history logging settings, determine how text in Ding! appears, and define search directories and services. For detailed descriptions of each of the settings, see Reference. ![]() |
While running Ding!, add peers to your Peer List from Who's On by clicking on their address link. |
Who's On? Activerse is providing a new service for the Ding! community, called Who's On. Who's On is a realtime view of who's logged into a Ding! Switchboard. If your switchboard host is
Please note: It may take a few minutes for changes in user information to be updated on the website. ![]() |
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Ding! Peer Finder The Ding! Peer Finder helps you locate others you may know who have Ding! addresses. Located in the "Search" feature in your yellow Ding! Menu, the Peer Finder handles boolean searches. Once you locate someone using their name, email address, or organization, you can add them to your Peer List by simply clicking on their entry in the results. More information on searches and varying search directories can be found on the Reference page. ![]() |
Not sure what switchboard you're on? Check the Switchboard Administrator icon at the bottom of your Main Window. |
Ding! Switchboard Administrator If you are a commercial user, you may have your own Ding! Switchboard Administrator who is responsible for maintaining your host Ding! network. Your switchboard is the first portion of your Ding! address that serves as your host. If your Ding! address contains either At the bottom of the main window of Ding! is a violet icon and the words
'Switchboard Administrator.' As needed, you may receive system messages or
messages of the day from your Ding! Switchboard Administrator, broadcast
to you or your switchboard network at large. To recieve these messages, simply
double-click on the icon as you would to receive any instant message and the message will automatically open. Currently, you can only receive messages from
your Switchboard Administrator.
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Product Registration On commercial copies of Ding!, there should be a product registration key. A valid registration key is needed for help desk and technical support. If you are a commercial user, and are having difficulty with your product registration key, or have lost your product registration key, please speak to your Ding! Switchboard Administrator, or contact Activerse at support@activerse.com or call 1-800-235-9274 and choose the 'Technical Support' option. To register your copy of Ding!, click on the yellow Ding! button at the right corner of your window. Scroll to "About Ding!" This should bring up the about window, which allows you to 'Register' or simply see the current version number of your copy of Ding!. If you are a commercial user and have purchased your copy, click 'Register,' which will open the Ding! Product Registration window. The Ding! Product Registration window tells you about registering Ding! and contains blank fields to enter your 17 digit product registration number. Once you have entered this information, please check it carefully, as you cannot edit this number once you click 'Okay.' If you are satisfied that you have entered your product registration key correctly, hit 'Okay.' The fields will fade, if the key is valid, and become a permanent record in that window of your product registration key. If the key is not valid, you will be told that it is an invalid key and allowed to reenter it. Again, once you enter a valid key and hit 'Okay,' you cannot edit the product key again. ![]() |
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Ding! Scope Also contained in the Ding! folder that you installed is Ding! Scope, a utility designed to assist you in testing the firewall possibly offered by your Internet Service Provider or your corporate network policies. These systems may limit the functionality of Ding! by curtailing some or all of the communication mechanisms neded to transfer data to and from Ding! clients. To test for a possible firewall, you can return to the Ding! folder whereever you installed it. Click on the yellow icon with the 'D.' This will bring up a window called 'Firewall Test.' Several tests are listed in the window, and at the bottom is a button called 'Run Tests.' Click 'Run Tests' to have Ding! Scope check your provider's firewall. As the tests are run, you will be given 'pending' messages. Once Ding! Scope is complete, the results will be displayed for each test heading, letting you know if Ding! can successfully communicate past your firewall or may have difficulties. If any of the tests fail, speak to your Ding! Switchboard Administrator for assistance. ![]() |
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