Creating a room

A room is a permanent collection of settings and roles configured to optimise functionality for a concrete videoconferencing purpose.

A single room can be used to run multiple sessions.

As a team member, you can create, configure and manage rooms using the Digital Samba Dashboard.

Inheritance

It is important to understand the below inheritance rule:

Room settings except 'Privacy' and 'Maximum participants' are inherited from default room settings. You may customise your room by overriding these defaults; only unedited properties will continue to inherit future edits to default room settings.

Example 1: if you create a new room and don't tweak its primary colour, and then a team admin or owner alters primary colour in the default room settings to blue, your new room's primary colour will be inherited and automatically be made blue as well.

Example 2: if you create a new room and set its primary colour to red, and then a team admin or owner alters primary colour in the default room settings to blue, your new room's primary colour will stay red.

Implementation

To create a new room, go to to the Rooms section of the dashboard and click on the 'Create a room' button.

To save time, you can optionally also clone an existing room. To do so, go to the Rooms section of the dashboard and find the option in the three-dot menu next to each existing room.

You may always click the 'Reset to default' button to reset your room settings to match your 'default room settings'.

Rooms can also be created using the Digital Samba RestAPI, and our integrations in Google Calendar and Wordpress. Please refer to Room Source to see where a room was created.

You can also create a room on the fly and instantly join it by clicking on the 'Meet now' button on the dashboard's header.

Continue reading to get a detailed list of room settings.