Creating conferences Setting conference permissions Specifying mail handling rules for conferences Creating conferences         Note If You just want to create a simple shared area, you can create a workgroup instead. Creating a workgroup is more straightforward than creating a conference. The tradeoff is that you have more control over conference behavior. You can create conferences just as your administrator does. If you have trouble getting your conferences to work as you expect, contact your administrator. To create a conference: 1       Open the container where you want the conference. 2       Choose File > New > New Conference. 3       Select the template you want your conference to use. The template Copy View Properties copies the layout of the container in which you are creating this conference. The conference is created with the default name selected. 4       Type the name you want to give your conference and press Enter/Return. After your conference has been created, you can: •       open it to customize the view •       update conference properties on the Info form. 5       Set conference permissions. Top Setting conference permissions To specify the permissions for your conference: 1       Select or open the conference. 2       Choose Collaborate > Permissions. 3       Update the Permissions form. We recommend that you select "Do not publish in Directory", so that your conference isn't in the Directory. This lets you name the conference whatever you want, without worrying about finding a unique name, and prevents users who shouldn't be seeing your conference from knowing about it. Your changes are saved automatically when you close this form. Top Specifying mail handling rules for conferences You can set up mail rules that tell FirstClass how to handle mail received by a conference. Top