Templates and Roles

Introduction

Template is the blueprint of the room. It defines the settings of the room along with the behavior of users who are part of it. Room will inherit the properties from a template that you have specified while creating it. If you have not specified any template then it will pick the default template. Each template will be identified by its id. E.g. default_videoconf_7e450ffc-8ef1-4572-ab28-b32474107b89

Users can see or modify the templates by visiting Templates

Template

Roles

Role is a collection of permissions that allows you to perform certain set of operations while being part of the room. It has the following attributes

General Settings

Name

Every role has a name that should be unique inside a template. This name will be used while generating app tokens and referencing inside a template.

Publish Strategies

Publish strategies will be used to determine the tracks and their quality which can be published by this role.

Can share audio

Whether the role is allowed to publish the audio track or not.

Can share video

Whether the role is allowed to publish the video track or not

Can share screen

Whether the role is allowed to do screen share or not

Video quality

Quality of the video track which is going to be published by the role. Currently, 4 video qualities 720p, 480p, 360p and 240p are predefined and the user can select one out of these values. This option will be visible only if the Can share video is enabled.

Screenshare quality

Quality of the screen which is going to be shared by the role. Currently, 2 video qualities 720p and 1080p are predefined and the user can select one out of these values. This option will be visible only if the Can share screen is enabled.

Subscribe Strategies

Subscribe strategies will be used to determine what all roles, this role can subscribe to.

Subscribe to

You can select all the roles of the template which this role will subscribe

Permissions

Permissions will contain a list of additional privileges that this role will have.

Can change any participant's role

With this permission, user will be able to change the role of the other participant's who are present in the room

Can mute any participant

With this permission, user will be able to mute any participant's audio and/or video.

Can ask participant to unmute

With this permission, user will be able to ask any participant to unmute their audio and/or video.

Can remove participant from the room

With this permission, user will be able to remove any participant from the current session of the room.

Can end current session of the room

With this permission, user will be able to end the current session of the room.

Note

  • As of now templates have only roles section which will be extended in future
  • You can modify an existing template to create a new template.