You can select custom layouts to use for all conference participants. To use this option:
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3.Click on the layout you want to use from those shown in the Available layouts. There are different numbers of panes and pane configurations to choose from.
The chosen layout is displayed enlarged to the left in the Conference custom layout section of the page and the radio button is selected.
4.If you want to select the participants who appear in a pane manually rather than letting the MCU make the
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5.To have all participants see this layout when they join the conference click
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6. If you also want all participants to see this view now, click | . |
The following table explains the details that display.
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| New participants joining this conference will view | If a participant has chosen to use a custom | ||
| the conference with this custom layout rather | conference layout (see Customizing a participant's | ||
| than one of the default views (see Customizing a | layout display), their view will automatically | ||
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To have more control over which participant appears in which pane, you can use the Pane placement function. Pane placement works on a per conference basis.
Pane placement works on the selected custom layout in thepage - see Customizing layout views. The chosen custom layout is shown with the panes numbered. The largest (and therefore most important) panes have the lowest numbers. Because the largest number of panes in any custom layout is 20, there are twenty drop down lists, one per pane. If the number of panes in the chosen layout is less than this, a gray line separates the panes that are used from those that do not apply to this layout.
The first time you open the pane placement page for a conference all the panes are set to <default>. The MCU decides which participant will appear in panes with this setting. See Understanding how participants display in layout views for more information.
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