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Flow Webinar Rooms for Unlimited Use

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What is a Webinar Room?

A Webinar Room on Flow is fundamentally similar to an indefinite event (core functionality), but it functions as a permanent and  you can start and end it without a time limit. Unlike events, it provides direct and permanent link that doesn't change over time.
Flow Webinar Rooms provide Single Sign On (SSO) integration capabilities.

Watch and Learn


1. Adding/Removing a Room

Currently you have to request the customer support team to add a webinar room. During your trial, one room is enabled for a limited time.

💡Tip
When a room is added, it is available under the Rooms tab that appears on the left in the Flow dashboard.

2. Adding Admins to a Room

The owner of the account is always added to the webinar room as an admin. To add other admins to a webinar room, you must be the account owner or an admin added by the account owner

  1. While on Flow dashboard, click on your profile image
  2. Click on Admins
  3. Click the Red '+' button to add an admin
  4. Provide email and click Next
  5. Provide personal details of the user and click Add
  6. Once you add and see the user in the list, click Add to Room option
  7. Add the person to the room by using the dropdown box. The settings will be saved automatically.

3.0 Customizing a Room

  1. Make sure you are on the ROOMS tab
  2. Click the meatball menu ('...') in the webinar room card
  3. Click Edit.

3.1 Rooms - Available Options

A room is similar to an event, with certain features made permanent such as duration that is similar to indefinite. Therefore, some options are not available in contrast to events (such as date/time, duration, and other event related).

  1. General: Title and description for webinar rooms
  2. Settings: Refer to the Event Creation Guide for more (they share the same set of settings). Note that some settings are irrelevant for rooms, such as,
    • Track Registration Sources
    • Custom Questions at Registration if and only if you use SSO

    3. Customization: Refer to the Event Creation Guide for more (they share the same set of settings). Note that some settings are irrelevant for rooms, such as,

    • Email Options
    • Reminders

    4. Summary: This is where you find and manage the access links, and add room admins to a webinar room.


        4.0 Adding Users to the Webinar Room

        • You can use the guest access, Registered Users option, as well as implement SSO on your website with our API (and manage them on your end).
        • With the Registered Users option, you can create and manage your own member database.

        4.1 Guest Access

        1. Make sure you are on the ROOMS tab
        2. Click the meatball menu ('...') in the webinar room card
        3. Click Summary
        4. Use the available guest password (enable) or set up your own guest password (see below).

        4.2 Creating Registered Users

        Visit this article to learn how you can add registered users.


        5. Starting/Ending the Room

        • You MUST start the room (click Start Event) button in the Storyboard so that attendees can hear and see what you share. 
        • If you do not, you are in PREP MODE (you can do a dry-run and test your devices in this mode) and End Prep Mode (scroll to the bottom of the storyboard) to close the preparation mode (this will still flush every user out). 
         
      • Click the Enter Room button to join the webinar room as a host
      • Click Yes to the dialog box when prompted
      • Add storyboard items if there is none (learn how to manage the storyboard) - these items will stay permanent until you delete them
      • Click the Start Event button to start the session.
        • To end the event click End Event. This will end the event and flush everyone out.

        6. Viewing Reports


        7. Managing Replays


         

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