Participating in a virtual meeting

You may organize a virtual meeting as an appointment. Specify the kind of online tool you are going to use, e.g. a computer conferencing application, under ‘Details’ when you create the appointment. You may also specify an online tool for an appointment later on:

      Select action menu  Change    Tool  in the action menu of an appointment.

If such an online tool is specified for an appointment, BSCW supports you with setting up the virtual meeting:

      Select action menu  Join  in the action menu of the appointment in order to join the virtual meet­ing at the time agreed upon.

BSCW then sends a file to your Web browser containing the address data. The MIME type of this file matches the online tool specified for the appointment. If your computer system, and in particular your Web browser, are configured appropriately, the online tool will be started and automatically connected to the correct addresses.

Please consult the manual or the online help of your Web browser and of the conferencing application for further details. You may also want to contact your BSCW administrator.