Waiting Rooms
Waiting rooms are a great way for your hosts to manage meeting access with ease. Participants "knock" at the virtual door and hosts can allow entry, decline, or even said messages to communicate a delay.
You can create a waiting room experience for your participants by making sure the room is created as locked during the API request. You do this by setting the isLocked property to true:
Make sure to include a hostRoomUrl in the request. Users provided with a hostRoomUrl will have the ability to join a locked room, as well as accept and reject participants knocking at the room.
Managing the waiting room experience
After you've created a locked room, there are a variety of ways you can customize the experience:
User Experience
When a participant knocks at a locked room, hosts receive a notification in the room. They can they choose to "Put on hold" and include a message, "Let in", or "Reject":
Users are then notified from the host, or let into the room accordingly:
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