Integrating the chat room with your forum

Your chat room can be integrated with your Website Toolbox forum in many ways. The integration options are described below.

Chat Link

A chat link can automatically be added to the main navigation of your forum. This will allow your users to easily launch the chat room while browsing your forum.

The chat link can be enabled/disabled by following the instructions below:

1. Login to your Website Toolbox account.
2. Click the General Settings link under the Your Forum section.
3. Toggle the Display a chat link option under the Chat Room options section.
4. Submit your changes.

For external forums not provided by Website Toolbox, you will have to manually integrate the chat link by copying the code from the Get HTML Code section of your Website Toolbox account.

Active Users List

This option allows you to display a list of online chat users at the bottom of the main page of your forum. This will help increase participation in the chat room because more users will want to use the chat room when they see that other users are already actively chatting in it.

The active users list can be enabled/disabled by following the instructions below:

1. Login to your Website Toolbox account.
2. Click the General Settings link under the Your Forum section.
3. Toggle the Display list of active chat users option under the Chat Room options section.
4. Submit your changes.

There is currently no active users list integration available for external forums not provided by Website Toolbox.

Membership Integration

The membership integration option allows a member of your Website Toolbox forum to login to the chat room with the same username as their forum account. If the user is already logged into the forum, they will automatically be logged into the chat room when they click the chat link. If the user is not already logged into the forum, the chat room will display a login screen asking the user to enter their forum username and password.

Membership integration can be enabled/disabled by following the instructions below:

1. Login to your Website Toolbox account.
2. Click the General Settings link under the Your Chat Room section.
3. Enable forum membership integration option.
4. Submit your changes.

The Chat room access option on the same page will allow you to allow guests to login by pressing the cancel button on the chat room login window.

Membership integration is currently not available for external forums not provided by Website Toolbox. In this case a user would be able to login to your chat room using any username they choose.

If you still need assistance, please contact customer support.