Starting or joining a Session

Press the "Start WebCollab" button after opening the main page. Wait for the Applet to be loaded completely. If you want to start a new Session, press the Start button on the applet. Enter a name for the session that you are going to create. This name must be unique among the sessions that are currently running on the server, and must have only alphanumeric characters (no space or special characters). Do not use very long session names. Enter your name and a password that you want to set for this session (no spaces in any of these). Confirm the password again and press Start - this will create a new session on the WebCollab server and automatically join you to it. You can inform the other participants about the name of the session and the password that you have set for it. If you want to join an existing session, locate its name in the Applet window after the Applet loads. If you cannot find the session name, press the Refresh button. Click on the session name to select it and press connect. Enter your name and the assigned password for that session and you will be connected to it and the Session window will open for interaction.

The Applet window will display a list of all participants currently in your session. If anyone connects to or leaves the session, the list will be updated immediately. All participants in a session are assigned a color code. The color code for each participant is also shown in the participant list.


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