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
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 to be published by the role. Currently, 5 video qualities 720p
, 480p
, 360p
, 240p
and 120p
are predefined and the user can select one of these values. This option will be visible only if the Can share video is enabled.
For 1:1 calls higher video qualities (720p
, 480p
) can be used. For rooms with large number of participants (>5) it is recommended to use 360p
or 240p
.
Screenshare quality
Quality of the screen to be shared by the role. Currently, 2 video qualities 1080p
and 720p
are predefined and the user can select one 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
Subscribe Degradation
When this flag is turned on, one or more remote video tracks will be muted automatically when the network condition worsens. Such tracks will be marked as degraded
. When the network condition improves, the degraded
tracks will automatically be unmuted.
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.