Tutorial

Step 1 - Enter Web Site Info (Optional)

Your Free Trial is pre-configured with a hosting account and you can SKIP this step. You only need to perform this step if you want to host meetings on your own Web site.

To host Persony meetings on your own Web site, you need to have an FTP account on a Web site that also supports PHP. See "System Requirements" for more details. Please also visit the FAQ page. If you are using Windows Server, please see "Configure IIS for Persony Meetings".

Enter your FTP account information in the "Options" dialog under the Edit menu. VShow uses the FTP account to create meeting rooms on your Web site.

1. Server address: the address of your FTP server (e.g. ftp.mysite.com)
2. Login name: your FTP account login name
3. Password: your FTP account password
4. Meeting directory: Click "Browse" to select a directory on your FTP server to host meetings(e.g. /meetings/)
5. URL of the meeting directory: The Internet address of the meeting directory (e.g. http://www.mysite.com/meetings/)

Click "Verify Login" to make sure the account information is correct. For more information, please see "Options - Meeting Web Site".

Step 2 - Start a meeting

On the VShow LE toolbar, click the "Start meeting" icon to start a meeting. VShow LE will automatically create a meeting Web page in the meeting directory you specified in Options/Meeting Web Site. All the other toolbar icons should be enabled after a meeting is started. You can click the meeting URL link to display the meeting page, which other people will see when they join the meeting. A Meeting ID is displayed next to the meeting URL in the toolbar. Attendees need to enter the meeting ID to the meeting page in order to attend the meeting. The meeting ID can be the same for all your meetings or change every time you start a meeting.

 

Step 3 - Invite others to a meeting

You can invite others to the meeting by sending its URL via email. Click the "Email" icon on the toolbar. A new email message, which contains the meeting URL, will be created in your default email program. Send the email out to the people you want to invite to the meeting.

Step 5 - Share desktop

To share your desktop, click the "Share screen" icon on the toolbar. A sharing window frame will show up. You can move the frame to the region of the screen that you want to share. You need to click "Start Sharing" in the popup menu of the sharing window frame to start sharing your screen. You can use the Pen tool to annotate the shared screen. Click "Stop Sharing" to end the sharing session.

Step 6 - Share whiteboard and pictures

Click the "Share whiteboard" or "Share picture" icon in the toolbar to share a whiteboard or a picture file (JPEG only) with all the meeting attendees. A browser window which contains the whiteboard or picture will pop up. Everyone in the meeting can draw on the whiteboard or picture but only the meeting host can erase the entire whiteboard.

Step 7- Send files, Web pages, and screenshots

You can send a file or the URL of a Web page to other people in the meeting. When you send a file, it will be uploaded to your Web site first. Once the upload is completed, a message window, which contains the uploaded file's URL, will pop up in the attendees meeting page to allow them to download the file. The file is removed from the Web site when you end the meeting.

You can take a snapshot of your desktop and send it to all attendees in a meeting.

Step 9 - End meeting

Click the "End meeting" icon on the toolbar to end the meeting.